Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's announcement stirred the business world. He himself studied lists of industrial leaders to summon to the Cabinet Room, eyed such names as Owen D. Young, Thomas William Lament. Julius Rowland Barnes, Daniel Willard, William Green. Four group conferences were arranged: 1) potent railroad presidents; 2) tycoons of industry and finance; 3) husbandmen; 4) laboring...
...topic of Mr. Simpson's piece is "The Interstate Commerce Commission and Railroad Consolidation." This is a statement of the rapidly developing law in respect to railroad mergers since the transportation act of 1920, which gave the Interstate Commerce Commission authority over such mergers...
...obtained Nebraska as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Scouts Lewis, Clark, Pike, Fremont explored it. By early pioneers it was called a "great desert entirely unfit for agriculture." Across it were laid the Oregon trail, the Mormon trail to Utah, the "Pony Express" route, the Union Pacific Railroad. The Diamond Jubilee celebrated not Nebraska's 75th year as a State, but its 75th as a political unit. In 1854, by the "Kansas-Nebraska Bill" it became a territory, was permitted to decide its slavery status by "squatter sovereignty" (vote of the settlers). It sent troops...
Died. Robert John Gary, 61, vice president & general counsel of New York Central Lines; of heart disease; in Manhattan. He was a longtime foe of Federal railroad control, successfully defended (1926) his company's right to absorb the C. C. C. & St. L. ("Big Four...
...railroaders last week came many a piece o'f news. Of the new developments, major and minor, in railroad affairs, these stood...