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...have sold my automobile," he admitted not long ago. "Also I avoid many invitations. Mme. Poincaré and myself can no longer entertain, in return, on the scale expected of my office...
...perfumed story, fit for an opera. After a night of pleasure, the young Count Octavian and the Princess von Werdenberg were interrupted in the boudoir of the Princess by a visit from her loutish cousin, Ochs von Lerchenau. To avoid detection, the Count Octavian quickly put on the clothes of a maid servant and listened to the plans of the preposterous Ochs, who wished a cavalier to go for him to his supposed fiancee, Sophie von Faminal, and present her with a silver rose to indicate his matrimonial intentions. The embassy was entrusted to the Count Octavian...
Thus there grew to be five factors in the eastern railroad situation. Rules require that they or any other group take weak railroads into their systems that compete in their business, that they avoid injuring each other's business, above all that they serve the public equitably. The Interstate Commerce Commission is their moderator, referee, judge...
...great railroad executives to tussling like small boys. The eastern railroad situation became a melee where each one of the big participants tried to do at least three things at once?grab as many prosperous small railroads as possible, shove his opponent away from good roads towards poor ones, avoid kicking the I. C. C. (i.e., the public's interests). The railroads soon recognized that such promiscuous buffeting was unprofitable. For one thing, the turmoil made their customers aware that not yet were all great corporations "good corporations," like Judge Gary's U. S. Steel Corp. So the railroad executives...
...chaise-longue reading. . . . They stayed at Havana four days. A "norther" swept across the bay. nearly bumped a bulky launch against the Liberty. The crew watched a jai alai tournament and cock fights. Finally they took off for Santiago de Cuba, stopping en route at Manzanillo to avoid a squall and because Publisher Patterson liked the name. At Santiago they visited Spanish War battlefields, ate melons, saw the straits where much-kissed Hero Richmond Pearson Hobson sank the Merrimac...