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...have no intention now or hereafter of resigning." declared Secretary of State Hull to newshawks as he debarked from S. S. President Harding in Manhattan and straightway motored off to Hyde Park to report to President Roosevelt on the World Economic Conference. At the President's summer home where he was a weekend guest he again assured reporters that he was staying in the Cabinet. When he got back to Washington he said the same thing. These denials seemed to dispose of persistent rumors of the most serious ruction in the Cabinet since March...
Step 2. In 1920 came the National Transportation Act, proposing railroad consolidations. Straightway the Van Sweringens sat down to figure out their own consolidation. The Nickel Plate was making money and in 1922 they had it buy and absorb two smaller roads: the Toledo, St. Louis & Western ("Clover Leaf") and the Lake Erie & Western. But the brothers had a more ambitious project; they wanted the Chesapeake & Ohio. A block of 73,000 shares, a minority but practically a controlling interest in the C. & O., was held by the Huntington family of Los Angeles. In 1923 they bought this...
Gongs, idle for nine days, last week sounded sweet silvery notes and were greeted by rounds of applause from brokers who straightway recommenced trading in all the nation's stock and commodities markets. Prices bounded. On the New York Stock Exchange they mounted 15%, greatest one-day gain on record. On the Chicago Board of Trade a few transactions took prices up 5? (the limit allowed by special rule). Next day prices gained again but more moderately. Thereafter began a gradual recession while businessmen took stock of their hopes, doubts, profits...
When an English or U. S. citizen is jailed, his lawyer gets a piece of paper from a judge and shows it to the police who are then bound to yield their prisoner for a hearing before a magistrate on the charges and evidence' against the prisoner, or straightway release him. Long before the Magna Charta (1215) Anglo-Saxons wrested from king and barons the freeman's right to that piece of paper. It was, and is, called a writ of habeas corpus ("you may have the body"). It is issued on the theory that...
...locomotive in his father's private railway. That year he saw a balloon ascension at a Sao Paulo fair. Sent to Paris at 18 to finish his education, he had his first balloon ascent at 24 with Machuron, designer of Explorer Salomon Auguste Andree's famed balloon. Straightway he began fiddling with lighter-than-air craft, built ten airships of which No 6 won the 100,000-franc Deutsche prize for the first flight around the Eiffel Tower. His airships solved one by one the problems of shrinking & expanding gas, buckling, lateral balance. Then he moved...