Word: tractions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hall showered sparks in all directions. Traffic was effectually tied up for more than fifteen minutes, until a group of motormen policemen and students succeeded in fastening the hanging wire, and holding it until the repairing wire, and holding it until the repair truck from the track from the traction company arrived...
...Charles L. Craig of New York City whose conviction for contempt of court was upheld by the Supreme Court (TIME, Dec. 3) escaped from serving his sentence of 60 days in prison. In New York politics his conviction for having criticized a judge conducting a hearing on a local traction company, was an emblem of martyrdom. The case was taken to President Coolidge, Republicans urging executive pardon to prevent Mr. Craig (a Democrat) from posing further as a martyr...
...applicability for the system," Mr. Murray began, "extends from Boston to Washington and inland from the coast for 150 miles; a territory embracing 23 million people or more than one-fifth of the population of the United States. In this zone there are 36,000 miles of heavy traction railroads, 96,000 industrial plants and 550 central electrical stations producing power. Electricity is the greatest agent of power in the world today, the father of all accomplishments, moral, intellectual, and physical. It is only by harnessing this power into one central organization that we can hope to attain the efficiency...
...overshadowing the continuous inuendo of traction scandal that has been the chief note of New York news columns for some time past come the startling reports of the corruption of the police officials, which cannot but reflect on the present administration. Perhaps the satellites of the Enright regime have overstepped and taken in too much hush money for "restoring" stolen automobiles and furthering the illicit liquor traffic...
...none so subtle or so liable to detonate the powder magazine of "bolshevism" as this one. Mayor Thompson, like all demagogues, is a "protector of the peepul," and posing as such, has attacked nearly all forms of organized business in the city, especially the public utilities, and the "robber traction barons." His platform smacks rather of Lenine than of an American statesman. At a time when the utmost should be done to conciliate capital and labor, he is making Immoderate and uncalled for attacks on established business organizations, and is fostering the discontent of the "downtrodden" workman, perverting...