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...Wabash (which is the first of the trunk lines to approve of the I. C. C. Consolidation Plan. Shrewd Chairman William H. Williams lately advised the Commission that he had been authorized by his directors to "acquire" the railroads allocated to the Wabash in the Final Plan...
...Shippers' Conference of Greater New York made some telling points against the I. C. C. Merger Plan. Their specific criticism: that the Lehigh Valley should have been assigned to the New York Central instead of to the Wabash. Their general criticism: a doubt as to the wisdom of increasing the size of rail systems, thus reducing competition and removing responsibility for management further from direct contact with shippers...
...Wabash will shortly submit to the I. C. C. a revised merger proposal which will include an outline of the financing involved. This is in accordance with a letter sent out last week by C. D. Mahaffie, I. C. C. Finance Director, stipulating that details of financial arrangements must be included in merger petitions. The letter went also to the D. & H., the B. & O., and the C. & O., none of which have yet taken action...
...Caffey, receiver for the New York & Cuba Steamship Co. Other clients whose cases he carried to the Supreme Court: Victor Talking Machine Co., Beechnut Packing Co., Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., Aetna Insurance Co., Swift & Co., De Forest Radio, U. S. Industrial Chemical Co.. Anaconda Copper Mining Co., Wabash R. R., General Electric Co. When his son Charles Evans Hughes Jr. became Solicitor General of the U. S. last year, Mr. Hughes Sr. dropped all cases in which the U. S. was his opponent...
First thing against her in her southern campaign was the weather. Dense fog, icy roads kept many from her meetings in Mattoon After, leaving a tiny audience at Olney, she found that the flooding Wabash had made her motor useless, had stopped railway passenger service to Newton, her next stop. She borrowed a section handcar, started off over the rails. Overtaken by a freight train, she and her party hustled the handcar off the tracks clambered into the caboose, huddled around a small wood-stove with the conductor and brakeman until they trundled into Newton...