Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just before Christmas, Governor Smith of New York State launched an investigation of President Connolly's sewer system (TIME, Jan. 2). The system consisted, allegedly, in President Connolly's appointment of a special city engineer who specified a certain type of lock-joint pipe for Queens sewers. The sole local agent for the required pipe was President Connolly's good friend, one John M. Phillips. Monopolist Phillips sat back in his office swigging milk and whiskey, dictating pipe prices to contractors, growing rich. Borough President Connolly did not grow any poorer...
...held to the unwritten law of Navy discipline and found both the accused "guilty." Both were sentenced to lose their active commands and to go on half pay until the Admiralty shall see fit to order them once more to active service. Cried the Telegraph: "We must deplore the system of discipline which made the verdicts inevitable." Echoed the Herald: "The public will receive the verdict with astonished indignation...
...Amalgamation of British plantations to meet the world competition which must now be squarely faced; 2) Continued low prices of crude rubber; 3) Development of the system of co-operative buying among U. S. consumers which has proved effective in battering down rubber prices...
...supervises," recently acquired control of the Washington Water Power Co., which operates in Washington and Idaho, and for a longer time has owned the Pacific Power & Light Co., which operates in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. By adding to those companies Montana Power, American Power & Light has a well-knotted system tying the northwest communities snugly together...
...Loree has objected to the four system railroad plan of the others, fearing that the interests of his railroads (Delaware & Hudson, Wabash) would be harmed. Therefore he proposed to arrange certain small eastern roads into a fifth system, and so astute a railroad financier is he that the heads of the other four temporized with him. Mr. Atterbury became his ally. Last week Mr. Atterbury, who presided at the executive meeting in the Pennsylvania Station, announced that certain compromises agreed to by the N. Y. C., B. & O. and C. & O. sufficiently protected the Pennsylvania's interests, that...