Word: transitional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four years ago, a man without previous experience in money-matters received an appointment from the City of New York as Transit Commissioner. Two years ago, he became receiver for a New York transit company. Last week, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury with immediate charge of the vast ramifications of foreign debts. He is General Lincoln C. Andrews, retired cavalry officer...
...hard to keep up an appearance of dignity while swinging on the back end of a hook and ladder, but who could have guessed the identity of such a daring passenger, unless the Dawes pipe had been noticed? Or take the police patrol; here surely is safe and rapid transit, as long as Mr. Dawes took care not to look out of the windows, for even Washington would have been startled to see the Vice-President peering anxiously through the bars of a Black Maria...
...years of these two quiet, clear-eyed, clear-headed young men, took an option on some pasture land three miles out beyond the farthest car line and began to subdivide it into building lots. They began to develop it and, after a time, found that they had to have transit lines, that they would have to furnish transit themselves. So they opened negotiations with the Nickel Plate Railroad, which had a right of way that they wanted, and in somewhat fabulous fashion concluded the negotiations by purchasing the whole railway. They subsequently acquired control of the Toledo, St. Louis & Western...
...Triumvirate (Stalin, Zinoviev, Kamenev) ordered Trotzky's magnificent train-it included a diner, sleeper, library car and Avas fitted with a printing press and a radio set-to be uncoupled and put on the regular railway service. The 150 men employed on the train have been discharged. Sic transit gloria Trotsky...
Brooklyn is aggrieved. News stories of murders, bank robberies and transit line accidents in that city are sent out under New York date lines, robbing Brooklyn of its just share or notoriety. But Mr. H. E. Bullis of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce is aroused to the peril in which the fair name of Brooklyn stands, and he is leading a crusade to "put Brooklyn back into the news...