Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile in Philadelphia Samuel Vauclain, President of the Baldwin Locomotive Works had been offered the Chairmanship of the Philadelphia Citizens' Committee on the Bok peace award and he said...
...Samuel Rea, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad system, will retire in 1925 at the age of 70. His probable successor is W. W. Atterbury, Vice President, in charge of operation...
...Samuel Rea began as a clerk in a country store. At 16 he went railroading, and 31 found him, mature, assistant engineer in the construction of chain suspension bridges over the Monongahela at Pittsburgh. Finally, as head of the 12,000-mile system employing 250,000 men, he became one of the three or four dominating powers in American transportation. He is considered largely responsible for many features of the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act, whereby the roads were returned to private control...
...President wrote to Julius H. Barnes and to Samuel Gompers urging that their respective organizations (the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Federation of Labor) appoint permanent committees to aid in placing disabled veterans in jobs. There are still about 70,000 disabled veterans receiving training from the Veterans' Bureau, of whom about 3,000 will be discharged as rehabilitated every month...
...publication of four new books during the month of January was announced yesterday by the Harvard University Press. The books are: "Bits of Harvard History," by Samuel F. Batchelder '93; "A Handful of Pleasant Delights," edited by Hyder E. Rollins '16; "Harvard Excavations at Samaria 1908-1910," by George A. Reisner '89, David G. Lyon '01, and C. S. Fisher; and "Early Economic Thought," edited by Professor Arthur E. Monroe...