Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even in the Senate days of William Morgan Butler of Massachusetts did the Coolidge Administration have an accredited Senate spokesman. Nevertheless, Senator Fess continued welcome at the White House and constantly was seen there. This particular morning he was, he said, going to talk with President Coolidge about railroad laws...
Soon church bells were ringing, railroad engines screeched, factory sirens shrieked; Belgian and Swedish flags came out like a plague; newspapers published extras. In the evening, so intent were loyal Brussels citizens on celebrating the royal joy, and so little were they disappointed by the advent of a princess instead of a prince, that they poured into the theatres and cafes by thousands, so that seats and tables were not to be had for love or money...
...Morgan judged from the then rector Fireman's earlier activities. He had been for 15 years with the New York Central Railroad, in the legal and accounting departments. In Clerk Freeman the late Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York foresaw a great cleric and gave him theological lessons. He was ordained Protestant Episcopal Priest in 1895. He is now 61 years...
John Haslup Adams was 28 before he decided what to do. Forced out of school early because of family finances, he got a job as office boy with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Strange office boy, he wanted to investigate art and for this purpose pinched his living; learned shorthand; did odd jobs; and finally went to Paris on his savings. Back from Paris with a thorough artistic background, he started writing; won a contest on the old Baltimore News at an age when most bright young men are beginning to succeed, took the resulting job offered him and in five...
...Fair of the Horse, in Halethorpe, Md., have come school children, railroad presidents, Henry Ford and many miscellaneous spectators, to the number of 1,000,000, since it was opened three weeks ago. On the fairgrounds they have strolled past exhibitions of trunks, tickets, timetables, tableware from Pullmans, telephones, tiny model locomotives, travel-folders, telegraph instruments, types of primitive wooden rails, all of curious and obscure design. Also, they have noted the present day offshoots of all of these. On sidings, huge stallion locomotives from far-away railroads have backed and champed; preposterously outmoded engines, like Shetland ponies, have pawed...