Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to have his conference with U. S. railroad men. He replied that he would not do so until the Interstate Commerce Commission announced its decision on the railroad application for a 15% freight rate rise, which he understood would be in a few days. Washington immediately took this remark as an obvious White House nudge in the commissioners' dignified ribs to hurry up and grant the rate rise before the roads folded up completely. In their own good time, last week the eleven commissioners, Mr. Mahaffie dissenting, let the commission's pleasure be known. Instead of granting...
That raising rates is merely a palliative has long been the contention of almost everyone except railroad officers and investors. ICC's Carroll Miller took occasion to reiterate his favorite belief that nothing can save the roads from Government ownership except consolidation into a single unified national system. How Labor will take the scaling down of duplicate services is not hard to imagine. Burton K. Wheeler, chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, reiterated his favorite belief that "some of the roads must go through the wringer." How banks and insurance companies, who are heavily interested in rail securities...
...Brown's triumph of exposition was this notable simplification of a balance sheet. "Very simply," he said, "it is a statement of what we own, what we owe and what we are worth. ... It is exactly the same as if you took two sheets of paper and on one listed the cash you have, the value of your home, car and furniture, and the dollar 'Bill Jones' owes you. On the other sheet you list what you owe the grocer . . . what you owe on your car. Then subtract what you owe from what you own. The result...
...Shall We Join the Ladies?" In London at No. 10 after luncheon, the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax, before they joined the ladies, took Herr Ribbentrop off into a separate room. Afterward, in high British quarters, they were said to have asked him to give "guarantees" that Germany would not violate the territory or independence of Austria- guaranteed already by no less than seven treaties, to all of which Britain & France are parties. Herr Ribbentrop was said on the same authority to have replied that this was "impossible,"* and to have added that it might be best...
...brilliant and devout, fought in the World War right up to the Armistice, at which time he laid down his arms on Austria's Italian front. It was then, as Dr. Schuschnigg has bitterly complained in his memoirs, that some Scottish soldiers who had been aiding the Italians took not only his rifle and ammunition but also his watch, his ring and his pocketbook. After this he never again felt the same about Protestants...