Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friends of Prohibition were perturbed by discovering that another new director of the A. A. P. A. is First Citizen de Forest's almost equally distinguished brother and law partner, Henry Wheeler de Forest, 72, who serves on the directorates of many a potent railroad and of such systems as Western Union and the American Express...
...half-victory by the Coolidge men was the provision that for floodways the U. S. shall buy not actual acreage but "flowage rights" across the land where necessary. This provision cut untold sums from flood-control's ultimate cost, said the Coolidge men, who suspected lumber and railroad companies of plotting to sell their valley lands at exorbitant prices...
...Jury. The three grocers, steamfitter, repair man, auto salesman, two clerks, merchant, expressman, broker and railroad agent who sat in judgment on Oilman Sinclair stayed out of the courtroom less than two hours. After they had said "not guilty" and been dismissed they told incredulous newsgatherers...
Elected. George Blow Elliott, 55, of Wilmington, N. C., vice president and general counsel of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., to be president of the line. Mr. Elliott, whose father was president of the same railroad (1900-1902) succeeds the late John R. Kenly...
...late Chauncey Mitchell Depew, orator, optimist, railroad lawyer, left an estate valued between $5,000,000 and $15,000,000. To Yale University he gave...