Word: steele
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This vehicle, potent, has two seats at the rear in which soldiers squat, holding rifles with fixed bayonets. Two more soldiers cling to each side of the car by means of hand grips, while their free hands grasp the hilts of ugly, blue steel repeating pistols...
...Italian journalism is free because it serves only the cause and the regime. . . . Elsewhere the press is at the orders of plutocratic groups and vested interests, such as public utilities and the steel industry; elsewhere the press is reduced to buying and selling sensational news, whose reiterated reading causes in the public a kind of stupefied saturation, with symptoms of debility, inanition and imbecility; elsewhere newspapers are grouped in the hands of a few individuals who consider journalism an industry, like iron or leather...
Before Leonor Fresnel Loree last spring was forced to abandon his threat of a fifth Eastern railroad system, he had an option on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway. This is a 600-mi., Y-shaped road joining Pennsylvania's soft coal and steel districts to Lakes Erie and Ontario. It lay as an important joint for him to connect his Delaware & Hudson, the Wabash (which he controlled) and the Lehigh Valley (which he thought he controlled). It was a pretty railroad layout and promised to compete with the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio established systems...
Meanwhile, and all summer long, the Van Sweringen brothers ? Oris Paxton, 49, and Mantis James, 47?sat high in their 54-story steel & limestone railroad tower domineering over Cleveland. Their apart- ment there in the air is charming.+ Charming, too, are they as individuals?courteous, manly, straightforward. Babbitt Clevelanders state that they are not jovial, that they are aloof. They play (chiefly at golf) more for physical and mental exercise than for sport. As railroad financiers they are great tacticians, but not yet great strategists. They gained control of the Nickel Plate, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Hocking Valley...
Married. Ex-fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney; and Mary Josephine Rowland ("Polly") Lauder of Greenwich, Conn., granddaughter of the late George Lauder, who was first cousin of Andrew Carnegie & organizer of Carnegie Steel Corp.; in Rome, Italy...