Word: taplin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their first railroad-the Nickel Plate (New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R.)-from the New York Central for $8,500,000. The road made money steadily for 15 years. But between 1927 and 1929 the Vans made a second, less prudent purchase. After a spectacular tussle with the Taplin interests (Pittsburgh & West Virginia R. R.), which resulted in a virtual corner on the stock market, they bought control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie...
...sure of that?" "I haven't any doubt about it." Counsel Jackson whirled, whipped from a stack of papers a deposition made by Mr. Mellon in a trial in 1934. in it he had testified that he had three times refused Frank E. Taplin's offer of $10,000,000 for 100,000 shares of Pittsburgh Coal. The first offer was made on June...
...fine new job, with the same salary as that of his old one, awaited Mr. Biggs: RFChairman Jesse Jones had appointed him voting trustee of the stock of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway where the conflicting interests of Frank E. Taplin and the Van Sweringens required the interposition of a neutral party of distinguished legal attainments...
Next day Cleveland's Frank Taplin, famed union mine operator who wants a U. M. W. code, called on Administrator Johnson, declared: "General, you're letting that gang of non-union Appalachian operators make a sucker out of you." Rapped back General Johnson: "You wouldn't think so if you knew what I told them yesterday...
...industry ruled by "the law of the jungle," that tycoons, "in spite of fluent lip service to the principles of the National Recovery Act," were taking a "narrow and indefensible attitude" toward its execution. Important mine operators who supported his code included Cleveland's Frank E. Taplin (North American Coal Corp.), Chicago's George Bates Harrington (Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal) and Omaha's Eugene McAuliffe (Union Pacific Coal Co.). After four days of red-hot controversy on the unionization issue, all coal codes were shunted back into conference where NRA deputies would hammer out some sort...