Word: transit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Altman, orphan niece of famed Manhattan Lawyer Max D. Steuer ("Belasco of the Bar"); and Leonard Golding, Manhattan broker; in New York City Hall, by Mayor James John Walker. It was the fourth time Mayor Walker had performed such a ceremony. He absented himself from a discussion of city transit unification. Said he: "Since this is another unification job, I don't think I can be accused of shirking the city's business...
...Andania, three Cunard Line vessels, all trans-Atlantic mail not specifically addressed to these three vessels. Immediately came protests. The Berengaria crosses the Atlantic in six days. Transfer of its mail to other, slower ships meant that such mail would take from three to six days longer in transit. The Post Office speedily reversed itself, rescinded the order, explained that it had been issued because it had been supposed that the Berengaria would be late in sailing. The rescinding order also included the Ansonia, the Andania...
...fable has been told of James Patten, onetime grain operator, who died in Evanston, Ill., last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 17), but no fabulous fortune did his will reveal. His estate was valued at $20,000,000; his investments, sound, shrewd, included stocks in Chicago Daily News; Chicago Rapid Transit; Commonwealth Edison; First National Bank, Chicago; Pullman, Inc.; Swift & Co.; 20 Wacker Drive Building Corp. Estate income goes mainly to Widow Amanda Louise Patten. Upon her death, estate will be divided, one half to charity, one half between Son John L. Patten, Daughter (Mrs.) Agnes Patten Wilder of Santa Barbara, California...
William Collins Whitney was his tutor in Wall Street and the first of his grand associates. At the time when Manhattan light and transit interests were consolidated, he became the ally of Jay Gould, Samuel J. Tilden, P. A. B. Widener, and had as counsel, Paul Drenner Cravath and Elihu Root. He helped elect a Mayor of New York, and did more than anyone else to secure President Cleveland a second term in the White House. He fought the Seaboard Air Line Railway until he beat it and he helped launch the Southern Railway. In one of his most notable...
Elected. Patrick J. Connolly, elevated railway motorman with the (New York) Interborough Rapid Transit Co., and president of the Interborough's Brotherhood of employes; to be company director. He continues to get 86? an hour as motorman; will get nominal director's fees, nothing more...