Word: rying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Mobile & Ohio Railroad operated 1,159 miles of track between St. Louis and Mobile, Ala. It has been controlled by Southern Ry. since 1902. Last week the Southern decided to stop advancing funds to M. & O., saw its subsidiary consent to a receivership, announced, "The consequences of this decision must be to ease the Southern's own position." The receivership was the first in the railroad field since Reconstruction Finance Corp. was formed, first since the Wabash and Ann Harbor receiverships last December. The M. & O. had applied in vain...
...Oh?ev'ry evening hear him sing...
Died. Louis Eugene Jeffries, 63, long time (since 1918) vice president & general counsel of Southern Ry. ; at a hearing be fore the Interstate Commerce Commission, in Washington; of a heart attack. Mr. Jeffries was also vice president & gen eral counsel of several other railroads, including Alabama Great Southern and Georgia, Southern & Florida. In Washington's Knickerbocker Theatre disaster (1922) he lost two of his six children...
...Nadjeda de Braganza Dorozynski, daughter of Princess Anita Stewart Miguel de Braganza, Manhattan socialite, and the late pretender to the throne of Portugal; from one Vadim Dorozynski, son of a sometime Russian naval officer; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: incompatibility. Sued. William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry., and his wife Laura; by Rev. Ulysses Grant Warren, of Corning, N. Y., for $200,000. Charge: alienation of the affections of Mr. Warren's wife, Edith, Mrs. Storey's cousin. Mrs. Warren filed suit for divorce in Minden, Nev. Declared Mr. Warren's attorneys: "No scandal...
...large map of Indiana a sharp eye can pick out Santa Claus (pop.: 100) in the northern end of Spencer County about 3 mi. east-by-south of the Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial and the same distance north of the Southern Ry. tracks. Santa Claus consists of one rough street, a few frame houses and a general store in the back room of which is a post office. The hamlet's time of fame is Christmas, when to it comes all the childish mail addressed to Santa Claus. Also several thousand persons ship its postmaster their Christmas cards...