Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some of the faces the President saw, the hands he shook, belonged to Governor John S. Fisher (see p. 11), Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia, Senator-Elect William S. Vare and onetime (1922-27) Senator George Wharton Pepper, Chief Justice Robert von Moschzisker of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Railroad Presidents William Wallace Atterbury (Pennsylvania), Daniel Willard (Baltimore & Ohio), Patrick Edward Crowley (New York Central), Edward Loomis (Lehigh Valley) ; also Samuel Rea, onetime (1913-25) President of the Pennsylvania R. R., Lawyer Owen J. Roberts of the Government's special Fall-Sinclair prosecution counsel, and those inevitable patrons...
...Story: A fortnight ago the Pennsylvania Railroad added to the women's lounge on car Gwladys (Porter J. L. Francis in charge; New York to Philadelphia) a green and beige smoking room with five light green velvet-upholstered wicker chairs & a light green velvet-upholstered wicker three-seated sofa. Other equipment included: mirrors, cuspidors, dressing table^ ashtrays. These facts were well broadcast by the U. S. press. Actually a smoking lounge for women is no innovation. The Chief (Santa Fé) carries a smoking lounge for women on its observation car. The Lehigh Valley R. R. is installing...
...there, was delighted. The Industrial Bureau advertised: "Here is one location they [transplanted concerns] found abundant raw materials. The finest type of labor in the world-willing, intelligent Anglo-Saxons. Plentiful plant sites. Ample hydro-electric power. Lower building costs. Invigorating climate, permitting efficient, year-round production . . . 8 great railroad systems, with 15 main lines...
Came Armistice Day, and as 11 o'clock ran around the world the former Allied peoples gave themselves up to two minutes of silence; for it was on that day nine years ago, that the truce was signed in a brown railroad car of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits in the Forest of Compiegne...
...often described by the character-novelist as "a slice of life." The characters, chiefly young men with intellectual pretensions, occasionally their mistresses, argue and act and idle through its pages much as they would through life. Many critics have acclaimed the book a masterpiece. It is not glib railroad-train reading...