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...Sweringen brothers are patient men, and apparently their patience is about to be rewarded in the actual realization of their plans for the great Nickel Plate merger. Arguments tor further delay made by minority Chesapeake & Ohio stockholders have been denied by the Interstate Commerce Commission, which has bgun to consider the merger officially. Its approval will remove the last important barrier to effecting the consolidation...
...house, languid with fever, able to write but little and consumed with longing for Fanny Brawne, whom he could not always see, though she lived so near. His doctor bled him often, fed him little; his illness grew fast. At last, after separation from Fanny in which he tor tured himself and her with jealous suspicions,* his friend Severn took him to Italy, nursed him through his last weeks. Wrote Severn: "He says words that tear out my heartstrings, 'Why is this ... I can't understand this' ? and then his chattering teeth." Keats died...
...half-dollar coins, with Lee and Jackson riding their horses across one side, and an inscription commemorating the valor of Southern arms on the other, await distribution. There are no funds to bring Lee and Jackson from the rock, no funds to distribute the coins which, designed by Sculp tor Borglum, are being minted by the U. S. to stimulate interest in the me morial. Said Mr. Borglum...
...resoluted" on an unusually wide variety of topics. Its "Platform of American Industry, 1924" advocated freedom for individual initiative and a halt in governmental control of business; deplored "dishonesty in high places"; defended the Supreme Court; condemned unnecessary taxation; favored the compilation and distribution of current trade information; declared tor complete freedom in making and maintaining voluntary employment agreements, without respect to compulsory membership or nonmembership in any organization; urged fair treatment for the railways and continuance of the Transportation Act; stood for the admission of immigrants economically needed, subject to the highest selective tests; supported the World Court idea...
...electing its directors for the coming year the Associated Press paid a special compliment to its chief organizer and its first president, Vic tor Fremont Lawson. As a special honor he was reelected to the Directorate by acclamation. Mr. Lawson is publisher of The Chicago Daily News. On Christmas Day, 1875, he, with Melville E. Stone (now retired head of the Associated Press) and two others, set up the News with $5,000 capital. The others soon dropped out. Stone maintained his connection with the News until he took charge of the Associated Press. Lawson and Stone instituted a series...