Word: wabash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Leonor Fresnel Loree, ablest railroad analyst in the U. S., is apparently blocked from creating a great fifth trunk system in the East, in rivalry to the New York Central, Pennsylvania, B. & O. and proposed Nickel Plate System. He controls the Wabash (Mississippi River and Great Lakes Ports to Buffalo; it reaches the Port of New York over the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western), the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh (connecting those cities), the Delaware & Hudson (upstate New York to the St. Lawrence). The B. & O. and the New York Central own control of the Philadelphia & Reading. In this particular road Mr. Loree...
...Cent. Union Pac. Wabash...
...industrious, however, all roads lead to eminence. Last week Young Brother, plain "Mister" Louis Bertram Hopkins, was installed as seventh president of Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.), in the presence of august trustees, judges and nine college presidents, including Big Brother, the learned Dr. Ernest Martin Hopkins, president of Dartmouth, who greatly enjoyed delivering an inaugural address...
Minnesota's array of padded gophers organized a private hell on the Wabash, impaired only by a single touchdown. Score: Minnesota, 67; Wabash...
...graduated from Wabash College (Indiana) in 1900, secured an M. A. in 1904. His thesis was "The Negro Problem." Long a member of the law firm of Hays and Hays, he began to interest himself in politics, became the Republican National Committee Chairman in 1918. People wondered at this "human flivver," this sophisticated "booster," this shrewd politician who quoted the Golden Rule, who said, "There is no twilight zone in politics; right is right and wrong is wrong . . . rights shall be held equally sacred and sacredly equal...