Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quite as famed as cod or Cabots in Massachusetts are the feuds between John Francis Fitzgerald and James Michael Curley, sometime Boston mayors. Sons-of-the-system, hot-headed Hibernians, they have called each other most of the names that can be printed and all the unprintable ones. In Dorchester, where they mostly hold their quarrels and reunions, the very ash wagons creak with politics...
Railroads. The Van Sweringen brothers gained control of the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway, on which Leonor Fresnel Loree (trying to make a fifth eastern railroad system) for a time had an option...
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...
Forces only partly known, like hidden electromagnets, were dragging against his fifth system. The New York Central wanted him out of their territory; it wanted the B. R. & P. as a cross-country, north-south connecting line. The B. & O. wanted the same B. R. & P. to reach the eastern Great Lakes. The Van Sweringens, close friends and complements of the N. Y. C., apparently stood by. Only the Pennsylvania sided with Mr. Loree's aspirations. Even so, financial and railroad men believe (such things are impossible to ascertain), Pennsylvania's President William Wallace Atterbury, while fanning Mr. Loree...
Then last spring Mr. Loree in a vicious, nerve-wracking stock-voting contest for control of the Lehigh Valley lost to Lehigh's President Edward Eugene Loomis. The fifth system thus could no longer be. Leonor Fresnel Loree, hard-bitten railroader that he is, was thwarted, vanquished.* At once he sold his Lehigh Valley and Wabash stocks to the Pennsyl-vania...