Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organizer, attended an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing at Dallas last week. There were 300 other railroad men and lawyers present at that hearing, but none of more importance than Mr. Loree. Indeed Mr. Loree was the prime cause of the hearing because, as chairman of both the Kansas City Southern and of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (the "Katy") and the controlling interest of the St. Louis & Southwestern (the "Cotton Belt"), he is seeking to merge these lines, with approval of the I. C. C., into a southwestern Loree system which will strap the Great Lakes to the Gulf...
LESS THAN KIN-Charles Caldwell Dobie-The John Day Co ($2). Adrienne was a child of love, conceived in lyric sin. Her mother was Elizabeth Sinclair of the amber eyes, inscrutable, majestic, heiress of a clan which had its roots in the shade of a southern plantation and its later branches in opulent California; her father, the great Kajetan, fiery master of the piano, a sort of Pietro Mascagni of fiction, with huge handfuls of blue-black hair and the hot blood of Italy's vine-clad valleys. Elizabeth Sinclair died soon after Adrienne was born; Kajetan, like...
...outstanding member of the Geneva squad is Hubbard. In this young Southern gentleman Cambridge fans will see perhaps the fastest big man in football. Hubbard carries his 235 pounds with the quickness and sureness of foot of a tiger and is a savage, sure tackler. His playing stood out conspicuously against Cornell...
Prince Chichibu began to explore the Northern Japanese Alps in 1923, and during 1924 scaled the snow-capped and hurricane swept Tateyama, one of the most dangerous and forbidding mountains in southern Japan. This youth of 24 who dropped in upon President Doumergue last week on his way to a winter of study at Oxford has indeed been chiefly responsible for the wave of interest in skiing and alpine climbing, now spreading over young Japan. Meanwhile those familiar with modern Nippon recalled that all the princes of the present ruling house are remarkable for their athletic prowess...
...late, onetime (1877-1911) U. S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan; brother of onetime (1906-18) Interstate Commerce Commission James S. Harlan; brother of Educator Richard Davenport Harlan ("the George Washington University Movement") ; father of the present Assistant U. S. District Attorney for Southern New York John Marshall Harlan (TIME, May 31). Twenty years ago, Chicago surface lines, well plundered, were in receivership. Lawyer John Maynard Harlan represented, the. court, then...