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...discuss the same proposition. Then a national meeting of railroad presidents was called at the Biltmore in Manhattan. It started before noon, lasted until 5 p. m. There was plenty of operating department oath-swearing and table-pounding. By this time the impetuous Westerners ? stout Lewis Warrington Baldwin of Missouri Pacific, white-headed Lawrence Aloysius Downs of Illinois Central, bald James Edward Gorman of Rock Island?were for dropping the idea of negotiation, filing their notices at once and fighting the matter out with Labor. But the spirit of conciliation prevailed, thanks principally to a 70-year-old gentleman...
Professor Sheldon of Yale, Professors Duchess and Blake of Brown, and Professor Richards of Cambridge University are a few of the well-known philosophers who will attend the dinner, which will be followed by speeches and a general discussion of philosophy. Most of the guests, including G. Warrington of Cincinnati and Henry Osmond Taylor, travelled a considerable distance to be present at this meeting...
...transcontinental road would be a fitting destiny for MOP. Started in 1851, the first railroad west of the Mississippi, it was acquired in 1879 by Jay Gould as a hub for his proposed transcontinental system. But the road became dilapidated, has only been built up since 1923 when Lewis Warrington Baldwin became its president. Now MOP operates 1,.500 miles of track, claims to be the longest system in the U. S. Long considered MOP's bankers are Kuhn. Loeb & Co. and it is believed they will remain so although J. P. Morgan & Co. are bankers for the Alleghany...
...actress should be allowed to scuttle out of the stage door and under the portcullis. When the actress, name of Elsie Hilary, appeared suddenly and without warning in front of this kangaroo tribunal, she had only one defender beside her betrothed scion. This was the Duke of Warrington who, immediately sensing that the actress had every intention of breaking her engagement without encouragement from Lady Minster, Lady Trench, Lord Trench, Sir Reginald Whelby, Lord Crayle or the family butler, urged that she be invited to visit in the gloomy castle until boredom drove her away from...
...course, Elsie Hilary, instead of allowing all the lords and ladies to arouse her ennui or resentment, aroused in them a great liking for her. She stirred the Duke of Warrington to a feeling more ardent than approval; and since she loved the Duke, she ended the agreement with her first lord. But the Duke of Warrington had an old flame whose husband died at just this inopportune moment. Elsie Hilary therefore compelled him to go to her rival rather than come to her in dishonor. Having so neatly forced an opportunity to show how Elsie Hilary had been trapped...