Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great railroad, tobacco, rubber, sulphur and mining companies have been the products of his organizing genius. In 1916, as everyone knows, President Wilson appointed him as an advisory commissioner of the Council of National Defense. Because Mr. Baruch had contributed largely to Democratic campaign funds, the appointment was considered a complimentary one. But it soon became apparent that the Baruch genius could apply itself as well to public as to private affairs, and there was only applause when in 1918 President Wilson chose Mr. Baruch for chairman of the almost omnipotent War Industries Board, charged with controlling and purchasing...
...present delegate system is hardly an expression of true democracy. The men who will represent Massachusetts in the coming Republican convention, for example, have no idea whom they will vote for. They pay their own railroad fare to get to the Convention and they will east their vote so as to get the best possible return from it. The delegation should really be a group of errand boys who have been delegated to vote a certain way by the people of the state, and who will do it. If you were to take a poll of a deaf and dumb...
...essay on "Why I Would Like a Technical Education;" will be queried on engineering or scientific projects they have conceived or executed. A committee composed of President Samuel W. Stratton of M.I.T., Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics Edward Pearson Warner, Vice President Elisha Lee of the Pennsylvania Railroad, General Manager Frank W. Lovejoy of the Eastman Kodak Co., Vice President Frank B. Jewett of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and others will then select the most promising youth, who will enter M.I.T. next autumn on a four-year scholarship given by the Youth's Companion...
...Hetty Green, the late unique creative financier among women, had forgotten that she had bought a railroad during the great panic of 1893. The Texas Midland, 125 miles long, had completely slipped her mind. She found it one day when she had nothing better to do than paw over some dusty old papers. She sent her son, Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green, to Terrell, Tex., headquarters of the road, to ascertain its value. It was a long sort, of job, as the Interstate Commerce Commission learned later. The road did not pay. Colonel Green established himself at Terrell, became...
...interest at the expense of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, which had exported gold to the U. S. for the first time. Standing orders have outlawed Russian gold since 1920. [Only last month Secretary Frank B. Kellogg had ruled against cashing of Russian Soviet railroad bond coupons by the Chase National (TIME...