Word: sion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps those who advocate the inclu- sion of Freshmen in the new units, are doing so because they feel that the Freshman dormitories have failed to meet a Utopian ideal. If so, they will be gravely disappointed in the new houses. Perhaps they feel that there will be more restriction and supervision in the new Houses. If so they will again be disappointed...
...Loree, shrewd and potent but faced with too heavy odds. Two of his stage "properties" - the Wabash and the Lehigh Valley roads - are prominent in the present rail-merger performance. Headliners of this program are the Two Van Sweringens, Oris Paxton and Mantis James. To the Interstate Commerce Commis sion came last week a somewhat peculiar request. Briefly, the petitioner - Nickel Plate R. R. - asked permission to acquire stock control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie road. Oddity of the request lay in the fact that last month the I. C. C. ordered the Nickel Plate to dispose...
...Lincoln-Shields duel near Springfield, Ill. He said it took place in 1861, when Shields, later Civil War general and Senator from Illinois and Missouri, was state auditor. Letters deriding him appeared in the Springfield Journal. He accused Lincoln, who refused to retract. According to the accepted ver sion of the Lincoln-Shields affair, broadswords were chosen and a site on the Missouri shore some 50 miles away. But friends interceded, prevented the duel...
...decision was welcomed by the New York Central. It marked the Commis sion's first favorable decision on a question concerning vital railroad consolidation. Both the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis (the "Big Four") and the Michigan Central have long been New York Central subsidiaries, New York Central owning more than 90% of their stocks. They have been operated as separate units, however, and the New York Central based its consolidation plea on the argument that "the necessity for protecting the earnings of each carrier" prevented complete unification and coordination of the system. A. H. Harris, chairman...
...Hoover deeply in his debt. If the Republicans should win, he would be the Senate's commanding figure and his commands would have to be listened to at the White House. When Sena tor Borah left Missouri it was to go to Washington to suggest that a special ses sion of Congress be promised for next spring to act on the farm problem, if necessary...