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Apart from the likelihood of Government interference with railroad rates this Winter along the lines suggested by the statesmen of the wheat belt, the railroads seem due to have unusual prosperity. During the last few years money has been freely placed in new equipment and maintenance of way, which has tended to lower operating costs. Moreover, the current freight car loadings continue even through the Summer slackness to run at almost record figures, with yet heavier traffic anticipated by everyone for the Fall. Thus far, too, the railroads have handled a tremendous year's business with ease and comparatively...
...Baldwin's remarks were intended as a compliment to Secretary Mellon, and, incidentally, to himself. Said a prominent Kansan : " To the legal profession as a whole, and to a very long line of legal statesmen, some of whom are still living, the Prime Minister's words are, to say the least, a grave and unnecessary injustice...
Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa came back from Europe with his mouth full. He had not visited art galleries, museums or antique shops, but he had talked with a great many people, statesmen and coöperationists...
...marriage to Countess Katinka Andrassy, a daughter of Count Julius Andrassy, last Foreign Minister of the Dual Monarchy. The Andrassy family is one of the principal pillars of Magyar aristocracy. During the last century a Count Andrassy was Foreign Minister at Vienna, and considered one of the greatest statesmen of his time. Countess Karolyi, granddaughter of this famous statesman, was once considered to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. The beginning and the end of Karolyi's influence in politics lies between October 31, 1918, and March 22. 1919. It has been written of him that...
...Chicago Tribune as a picker of statesmen...