Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Folger, insurance man, is San Francisco's favorite amateur entertainer. So well-loved is he that his friends recently gave him a business and a secretary to run it for him. Last week he was homebound (via New Orleans) on a coast-to- coast roundtrip given him by the Family Club, a San Francisco comity which each year bestows good things on some one. To Roy Folger they gave a transcontinental trip because he had never been out of California. He boarded an eastbound train and found that his own money was "no good" even to porters, dining car stewards...
Arturo Toscanini, conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, made known that he would sail for Italy next week to buy a castle on the Isle of Capri...
Journalistic Homers have sung for years the deeds of the Eastern trunk lines in their unceasing consolidation battles. Last week they smote a new chord on their lyres, began a new canto of the railroad epic. They turned to the West and the great Western railroads. In San Francisco last week sat Charles D. Mahaffie, Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Before him came Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern, Paul Shoup, President of the Southern Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, Western Pacific Board Chairman, Harry M. Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these...
...from Klamath Falls, Ore., to Paxton, Calif. Only one through route, the Southern Pacific, exists between the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco. The James extension would join the Great Northern and the Western Pacific into a second, and in some ways much superior, through route. Said Mr. James last week to Commissioner Mahaffie and the 200 witnesses and participants in the case: "I saw in the transportation and industrial situation in central and northern California an opportunity to carry on a constructive work which would be of real value to the country, through the strengthening and expansion of the Western...
...things must come an end. Last week there came an end to the almost uninterrupted panic of selling that has fermented U. S. stock markets since Oct. 23. At the beginning of the week the path seemed as clear for further selling as in the summer it had for continued buying. The only thing that stood in the way was reason: long had speculators seemed to ignore reason. For the first three days, Panic held sway. Led by U. S. Steel, stocks dropped to new lows. Again there were tales of a "banking consortium" holding secret midnight meetings, tales...