Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of members voting was 441. The votes in favor of the Railroad Bill number three hundred...
...cheerful mien of M. de Margerie, French Ambassador to .Germany. Pandemonium fit for a madhouse continued. In vain did the President rap his desk and tinkle his bell. Some minutes later he succeeded in reducing the noise to an excited drone and announced that the finals-vote on the Railroad Bill was 314 to 127. The Experts' Plan was virtually in effect...
...Nish shines in Balkan history, but to the naked eye it is a miserably dirty village. Serbs call it a railroad and industrial center. True, an express train passes through it every other...
...Isthmus Railroad put on special trains for pilgrims. The traffic is increasing...
...Stewart is also the oldest living graduate of Columbia University (Class of 1840). After an initial experience as a railroad clerk, a clerk in the Board of Education, and an insurance actuary, he organized the U. S. Trust Co. in 1853. From that date to 1902, he served as its President, except for a two-year period during the Civil War, when he was called by Abraham Lincoln to act as Assistant Treasurer of the U. S. Since 1902, Mr. Stewart has acted as Chairman of the Board of the bank which, a half-century before, he had organized...