Word: transitions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Vandenberg produced letters from numerous shipping companies declaring that, even if the canal is free, they will not use it because the expense and trouble of employing canal pilots, the risk of damage to ships in transit and increased costs of insurance would outweigh the saving in time. To show that Florida's geologist was not alone in his opinion, Senator Vandenberg next produced a letter by Harry Slattery, personal assistant to Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Said the letter: "Unless the canal could be effectively sealed throughout many miles of its course, a procedure presenting difficulties that...
...immigrant family after their conversion to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They covered the last thousand miles westward on foot. David Eccles prospered, founding one of the Northwest's great lumber companies, later branching into beet-sugar, banks, insurance, rapid transit. Before he died in 1912 he persuaded Son Marriner to accept his church's "call." Two early years of Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles' life were spent in Scotland in the frock coat and silk hat of a Mormon missionary...
...York, he left home at 19, worked as a common laborer before he studied law. Boosted from a city magistrate's insignificance by Tammany and Hearst in their effort to defeat Reformist John Purroy Mitchel, he won the mayoralty election in 1917, fought with his party on transit policy. Finally repudiated by Tammany, which preferred James J. Walker's lighter touch, Hylan ran against Walker and lost in the primaries, was appointed by his successor a Children's Court Justice...
...biggest business in New Jersey, and one of the biggest & best-run in the world, is Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. Built by famed Thomas Nesbitt McCarter, this $700,000,000 utilities holding company, whose wires, pipes and transit lines blanket the nation's sixth richest manufacturing State, has small trouble with its legislators and public utilities commissioners. It bumped into trouble eight years ago, however, when it set out to run a high-tension line through a colony of Poles at Scotch Plains. Some Poles squeezed fancy prices from P. S. C. for their land or permission...
With a perceptible air of dogged determination, Harold Nicolson writes of Morrow's financial work in connection with the mutualization of Equitable Life Assurance Society, the reorganization of New York City's Interborough Rapid Transit, municipal financing, giving the impression that such labors were equally tedious to biographer and hero. Morrow's career in France during the War and as Ambassador seems to interest Nicolson more. In Mexico Morrow ruthlessly broke diplomatic traditions, communicated with the State Department by telephone, buttonholed minor officials, made friends with President Calles, effectively neutralized Mexican hostility...