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...certain consistency. Canadian by birth, professor of political economy by profession, a raconteur who has only one equal in my experience [Irvin Cobb], he is a solid, jolly, gloom- defying gentleman. Ruddy of countenance, with hair slightly graying and usually rumpled, a bristly mustache, large shoulders and a stocky trunk, he talks positively and punctuates his conversation with loud and infectious laughter...
William Howard Taft: "Discussion in the Canadian House of Commons brought out the fact that I was paid $75,000 for acting as an arbitrator for the Grand Trunk Railroad...
Chicago is the railroad heart of the United States. The stream of trade which is the life of the nation circulates through this heart and is transmitted through the great arteries, or trunk lines, into the smaller capillaries. The seaboard cities like New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Boston may be likened to the lungs of this great body, for it is at these ports that the old blood is exchanged for new and sent back to the heart for distribution. Every throb of railroad policy that emanates from the heart is felt in all parts...
...proportion of the through freight rate which the trunk lines have assigned to the New England railroads is lower than that accorded the railroads which feed the other Atlantic ports. And this accounts for the recent trouble with one of the finest terminals of the railroad system--the port of Boston, which is broad, "deep chested", protected, and well furnished with excellent docking facilities; and what is still more in its favor from the point of view of the steamship companies, it is some three hundred miles, one day, nearer Europe than is New York, the nearest of the other...
...thus filling then pockets it and harassing their political control. Their pre-war debts have practically disappeared; the wages they must pay have risen relatively slowly; and all business they do outside of Germany brings them a hand-some profit. So they oil the printing press and drew another trunk load of paper from the mint...