Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Loree Merger. The I. C. C. suddenly ordered Leonor Fresnel Loree to explain why his railroad mergers proceedings in the Southwest were not a violation of the Clayton Anti-Trust law. Mr. Loree had had his Kansas City Southern R. R. buy control of the larger Missouri-Kansas-Texas ("Katy") and the St. Louis Southwestern ("Cotton Belt"), presuming that he was protected by the 1920 Transportation Act of Congress which encouraged the railroads to unify regional systems. Railroad men realized that the I. C. C.'s present gesture towards Mergerer Loree may be an effort to rub away...
...City made a speech, representing Governor George H. Dern of Utah. Then 2,500 people, on four special trains, rode forth and back through the six-mile Moffat tunnel thus formally opened. The tunnel connects Denver and the "near West" with the vast, enormously rich western part of Colorado, southern Wyoming, eastern Utah...
Clarence Duncan Chamberlain, New York-to-Berlin flyer, started on a lecture tour of the southern states in a Sperry-Messenger plane last week. He did the first lap through a snowstorm, and will do 5,000 miles in five weeks. His plane has a 26-foot wingspread...
...Texan Republican politics. It is still repeated in Texas that Mark Hanna himself put him on the governor's military staff, which made Capitalist Green of Manhattan a Texan Colonel. The Colonel paid the railroad's deficit regularly every year. It was his plaything. Last week the Southern Pacific bought Texas Midland, adding 125 miles to 16,601 miles. Colonel Green received $2,500,000 cash. The Interstate Commerce Commission had put the road's value "tentatively" at $3,096,851. Colonel Green has not revealed his own valuation. Analysis of the road's capital structure...
...Henderson '28 and R. M. Whittemore '29 during the supper intermission will feature this year's festivity. Programs for the event are already in the mail, and the decorating is well under way. The platform for the orchestra is being put up, and the walls are being decorated with Southern smilax. Bert Lowe's 20 piece orchestra will play ten card dances between the start of the dance at 10 o'clock and the supper interval at 12.30 o'clock, each dance consisting of a five-minute fixed dance and two encores, each of two minutes' duration, during which cutting...