Word: rates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding feature of that part of the President's address which deals with railroads is its recommendation that no change should be made at this time in the new rule of rate making. His attitude will encourage those who believe that the Transportation Act, if given a fair trial under normal conditions, will take care of the situation. He will disappoint those who insist that the rate-making rule, with its affirmative declaration that the railroads are entitled to a fair return on property value, should be repealed...
...proposal that a change should be made in the law relating to railroad consolidations so that voluntary amalgamation may be encouraged and expedited. The President believes that consolidation is the only feasible method for the maintenance of an adequate system of transportation and satisfactory adjustment of freight rates. His proposals merit thoughtful consideration. Yet those who appreciate the magnitude and difficulty of the task may shake their heads when they read that the entire freight rate structure of the country should be reorganized and that such action should be reorganized and that such action should be ordered at once...
...York City may be, perhaps, trying to create a reputation for naughtiness which will vie, in attracting visitors, with Paris in summer. At any rate another of those periodic dust clouds about immoral plays has ascended on the zephyrs of Manhattan where jaded country business men, both far and near, may see it. Apparently there has been no official statement of which plays are naughty and whether they are really naughty. In spite of this, the city is filled with a mighty hustle and hurly-burly of reformers, and a general movement of those who might be responsible...
...Filipino holds the post which was vacated by the astute Sergio Osmena who preferred to sit in the Philippine Senate under his brother politician, Quezon. It may have been that Osmena foresaw unprofitable struggles with Governor General Wood, and preferred to avoid a position of open leadership. At any rate, Roxas was made Speaker of the House and side by side with President Quezon of the Senate has opposed General Wood. Now he comes to Washington for the thankless task of trying to convince the Administration that the Philippines should be made independent. The political prognosticators prophesied: " Rising winds, colder...
...expedient that the United States once more make clear her relations to her southern neighbors. Two courses lie open: either to assert baldly a policy of maintaining peace in South America or to treat them as "grown up sisters". Perhaps the latter plan would prove less troublesome. At any rate a new definition of relations is necessary...