Word: tractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor Hylan, incensed at having been driven off the public radio by Court injunction: "The traction and underworld sympathizers, growing- panicky at the crumbling of their walls of misrepresentation before the broadsides of hard facts which I have given to the people in the last few days, made crafty moves yesterday to muzzle essential information from reaching the people. L delivered an address over the municipal radio station pointing out that Mr. Walker as a State Senator and a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture had appeared privately as attorney for the -% meat packers, who had in their possession...
Ever since the auto bus began to be developed as a serious competitor of railroad and traction companies, there has been a vivid interest in Wall Street in Mack Trucks, Inc. Earnings on the stock have been sensational, and prices for it have soared on the anticipation that soon a big "melon" would be split for the special benefit of the shareholders...
...Chief leave the congress without learning of the latest, distinctively U.S. contribution to the war on crime. It is an experiment for which Mr. Collier will personally expend $50,000. It is a series of advertisements which are to dominate the traction lines and billboards of New York and perhaps be extended to other cities...
These are specific examples of municipal accomplishments, but their achievement has meant the curtailment of profit and privilege for certain traction and utility groups as well as the newspapers owned, controlled, subsidized or amenable to them. Consequently, every statement of the mayor, no matter how buttressed with facts, has been distorted or garbled or ridiculed. But greater than the power of the newspapers and selfish corporate groups is the power of public opinion formed by a day-to-day observation of actual conditions and always dependable at the polls. This may be a consolation for the man who would enter...
...Aida de Acosta Root, wife of Wren Root, Manhattan Traction magnate and nephew of Lawyer Elihu Root, was going blind. Across Europe she hurried, from hospital to hospital, received little help, took ship, came to the U. S., to Washington, D. C, asked for an appointment with Dr. William Holland Wilmer, famed eye specialist. Said Dr. Wilmer's secretary: "You can have an appointment in six weeks...