Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a Senate bill increasing the pensions of Civil War, Mexican War, Indian Wars veterans, an'd the widows of veterans of 1812.¶ Passed a resolution authorizing a joint Congressional Committee to investigate land grants to the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. ¶ Considered the Department of Agriculture appropriation bill and passed it carrying $57,000,000, but without a provision for free seeds to be distributed by Congressmen...
...precedent having been set, other corporations followed suit. Mr. Vanderlip has successfully resigned from the boards of the Union Pacific Railroad, the U. S. Rubber Co., Freeport Texas Co., and recently from the International Mercantile Marine Co. The Wall Street Journal suggested that Mr. Vanderlip is in a fair way to become "a man without a company...
...from plain provisions of the law and the constitution. The test of democracy is not obedience to a law we all favor, it is our attitude to a law we may not like. Even if we don't like the 18th amendment, let's obey it. We asked the railroad shopmen, a year ago, to obey an act of Congress which placed the adjustment of their wages in the bands of the Railroad Wage Board and our attorney general declared them rebels against the government if they refused. They undoubtedly thought they were out for a living wage and decent...
...therefore, clearly of the belief that the Congress should retain Muscle Shoals, provide for its operation directly by the corps of engineers of the army, or by a public corporation ana-lagous to the Panama Railroad Company, and through such operation deal with the power produced in the mass, without entering into retail operation...
Speaking at Barcelona, where he inspected a new palace that has been built for Alfonso and his consort, Primo said that business conditions were "not very good but not very bad"; that transit over road and railroad is now safe, because of the vast military forces which patrol them; that the country is under military law only until he (Primo) has finished administering his political purge; that the majority of Spaniards favor the monarchy and hold no republican predilections; that a military expedition is to end Spanish troubles in Morocco during next month ?a story similar to many others...