Word: transitional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Butler was with the fleet at Vera Cruz. "So one night I went over the side and rowed ashore. After various experiences I landed in Mexico City as an American capitalist seeking to invest money in some substantial Mexican properties. After inspecting all the water works, electric light plants, transit lines and gas works, I noticed two forts overlooking the city. . . . I chased a butterfly and managed to look it all over before the soldiers ordered me out. The second fort was inspected in the same manner...
...Mitten bidding at a glance or a nod, to the end that the nefarious schemes hatched at before-dawn breakfasts, might, in their opinion, have the stamp of legality," were denounced last week by Judge Harry S. McDevitt who thereupon ordered the Mitten-managed Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. into receivership. Mitten Management, Inc. is headed by Dr. Arthur Alan Mitten, son of the late famed Thomas Eugene Mitten, transit expert...
...hard-driven pony of Poloist H, W, ("Rube") Williams (international squad) stumbled against the boundary boards of a San Mateo, Calif, polo field, leaped clean through a crowded spectators' box, felled one man in transit, crashed into two parked autos. Poloist Williams hurt his knee...
...Church, Press and Business set up a tremendous hue & cry directed against the entire city adminis- tration, but particularly against its dapper little Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker. Public feeling, which had smiled tolerantly at his wisecracks and philandering, which had overlooked his do- nothing policy on the unified transit problem and Unemployment conference, now flared up at what appeared to be culpable laxity. The Society for the Prevention of Crime urged Governor Roosevelt to invoke a little-known section of the city charter which empowers the Governor of New York to remove the Mayor of New York City. Many...
...Tobacco Co. meet April i they will be glad to hear President George Washington Hill report that last year their company's profits jumped from $30,000,000 to $43,000,000. They will also hear a speech from Richard Reid Rogers, one-time chief counsel of Interborough Rapid Transit Co. Stockholder Rogers has bitterly opposed American Tobacco's bonus- for-the-management plan. Last week he wrote to other stockholders calling attention to the fact that President Hill's 1930 compensation included $1.008,000 in salary and cash bonuses, $1,275,000 in stock...