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...organized and run by Leonor Fresnel Loree, who now controls the Delaware & Hudson. Mr. Loree, grizzly-bear of railroads, Harriman's successor in talent, conferred for nearly three hours. His conferees represented four trunk-line adversaries: the Pennsylvania, the New York Central, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Van Sweringen merger group (once planned to be based on the Nickel Plate, now planned to be based on the Chesapeake & Ohio...
...Lehigh Valley will be divided half-&-half between the Pennsylvania and the Van Sweringen group...
Tuesday. Breakfast on the train. Registered at the Willard Hotel for a morning of law conferences (the Nickel Plate merger, for the Brothers Van Sweringen of Cleveland, is in his hands). Went to the Supreme Court Chambers at the Capitol. Lunched in the Senate restaurant on pie and buttermilk. . . . Conferred with Assistant Secretary of the Navy in charge of aviation F. Trubee Davison, presiding officer of the Crime Commission; meeting set for next day. Called at the War Department. Secretary Davis at Cabinet meeting. Conferred with General Pershing's secretary, Captain Adamson, about Cleveland's reception for General Pershing...
...Sweringen brothers (Oris Paxton & Mantis James) last week presented a revised arrangement of their railroads to the Interstate Commerce Commission for approval. As in the case of the Nickel Plate System plans, disapproved last year by the I. C. C. (TIME, March 15, 1926), Henry W. Anderson and George S. Kemp of Richmond, Va., who represent Chesapeake & Ohio minority stockholders, are opposing the Van Sweringens now. Hearings may last a year?as they did in the Nickel Plate System case...
Schematization. The following table schematizes the eventual, hoped-for relations of the various Van Sweringen properties...