Word: sweringen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, the Senate adjourned stubbornly refusing to confirm Mr. Woodlock's appointment; the former Wall Street editor took seat without guarantee of pay; participated in the momentous anti-Van Sweringen decision...
...York City and Newport News on the Atlantic coast with Chicago and St. Louis in the interior. It would be a fourth great Eastern railway system rivaling the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio. The roads in the proposed merger are already controlled by the Van Sweringen brothers (O. P. and M. J.), who have demonstrated their capable management by their success with the Nickel Plate, which they acquired some years ago. They proposed by a system of 999-year leases to unite the five systems into one operating unit, thereby saving some...
...best, but Professor Yeomans' subject at 9 o'clock this morning is just sufficiently related to last week's to tempt me. He will speak in Harvard 2 on "What is regulation of commerce?" Probably the most entertaining answer to this question, could be given by the Van Sweringen brothers...
...adverse ruling of the Interstate Commerce Commission with regard to the Van Sweringen railroad merger will probably tend to clarify matters in further transportation consolidation," Professor W. J. Cunningham, Professor of Transportation in the Business School, told a CRIMSON reporter last night in an interview on the recently proposed Nickel Plate merger. "The railroad builders can now know what to expect from the Commission, and thus have a better idea of how to proceed. More over it must be clearly understood that it was the financial and not the transportation side of the affair to which the Commission objected...
...Nickel Plate, Erie, Pere Marquette, Hocking Valley and Chesapeake & Ohio railroads into a fourth great eastern system to complement the already existing New York Central, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore & Ohio lines. Stock in the five roads involved sufficient to swing the deal is already controlled by Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and his brother Mantis J. Van Sweringen, the genii of the plan, together with their banking associates. It remains for the Commission to decide its public policy...