Word: toed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flayed by the Lobby Committee in its fourth report, last week, was James A. Arnold, lobbyist for the Southern Tariff Association and the American Taxpayers League (TIME, Nov. 18) "Reprehensible," "utterly without regard for veracity," "no seeming sense of self-respect," were some of the Committee's characterizations of...
* The Times changed its plans, did not send its man to Cuba. Lobbyist Lakin's ultimate conclusion about trying secretly to supervise TIME'S investigator was: "This venture was not exactly profitable."-ED.
The Interstate Commerce Commission last week chose a new chairman for 1930 and simultaneously gave him more work to do than he or anyone else could possibly accomplish in a year's time. By a process of rotation Frank McManamy, whose I. C. C. service began 23 years ago...
Were not the I. C. C. a serious-minded body its Plan might have been entitled: "How to divide 250,000 miles of railroad into 19 systems and juggle them all into the air at once." The Commission had drawn up a set of instructions for this breathtaking feat, but...
The Plan. The Transportation Act of 1920 which returned U. S. railroads from the Government to their owners ordered the Commission to prepare a nation-wide plan for consolidation. The carriers were then weak and shaky after Federal operation. It was argued that consolidation would link the strong with the...