Word: southwesterner
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Next day the New Mexican carried a screamer: "YELLOW . . . Rampageous Wild Ass of Missouri Brays When Called." It was real, old time, Southwestern politics-but it was nothing compared to the heckling Candidate Reed received from a wider press as the result of later speeches...
...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 the conflicts between the Clayton Anti-Trust...
...linked with M. Cognacq's name is the differently spelled Cognac, the name ol a town in southwestern France where potable, exhilarating cognac is made...
Elected. Charles Eugene Johnston, 46, hitherto vice president and general manager, to be president of the Kansas City Southern Railway; to succeed Job Adolphus Edson, president for 22 of his 60 years in railroading. Leonor Dresnel Loree seeks to unite the K. C. S. R. with the St. Louis-Southwestern and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas as a southwestern railroad system (TIME...
Mexican Scabs. Delegates from Arizona and California railed bitterly against the streams of Mexican immigrants which, not restricted by any U. S. quota law, flood the southwestern labor market and supplant union labor in times of strikes as far north as the Pennsylvania coal fields. Other delegates were less deeply perturbed by the Mexican "menace" and the convention voted only to urge the Mexican Government to restrict its emigration voluntarily...