Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politics. Should any political thoughts stray through Mr. Chief Justice's mind this year, it might occur to him to compare the 1908 and 1928 Republican platforms. The one Nominee Taft ran on was partly the work of a newly-eminent lawyer who had successfully prosecuted the Harriman railroad combinations and the Standard Oil Co. for the U. S.-Frank Billings Kellogg, then called "the Beau Brummel of the politicians...
...complained: "I can't fight hard enough! I want to fight but how can I fight when my opponent [Nominee Hoover] won't fight?" ... It was also the week of that classic political utterance: "Nothing embarrasses me!" . . . Louis W. Hill, Board Chairman of the Great Northern Railroad and son of its founder, the late, great James J. Hill, jumped for joy and led cheers on the Smith platform in St. Paul. . . . Senator Shipstead, the duck-hunting dentist, the Farmer Laborite, was friendly-and then reported "hurt," "alienated." . . . Milwaukee went wild over the prospect of hearing its beer signs...
Reigh Count, a speedy racehorse belonging to Mrs. John D. Hertz, was ridden from New York to Chicago in 20 hr. and 50 min.-in a private car attached to the Panhandle Express of the Pennsylvania Railroad...
Harriman, 41, has only recently become a name in polo. The father of William Averell Harriman made millions of dollars in the railroad business and died before his eldest son went to Yale. With the $10,000,000 which he received with his majority, William Averell Harriman proceeded to have a good time in the shipping industry. This, he asserted to be ". . . the most important matter connected with the growth and well-being of the United States. . . ." Besides shipping, his financial attachments include railroads, banking, the American Railway Express Co., Wright Aeronautical Corporation, the American Russian Chamber of Commerce...
Elected. Walter P. Chrysler, onetime railroad mechanic, now motor car mogul, to be a director of the Erie...