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...busy to dally in politics in the past, Mr. Hungerford gives the impression of being a man who will stick to the job on hand and command the respect of his employes, although he is far less dashing a character than Sir Henry. The Government last week pledged itself to non interference. Whether or not Mr. Hungerford can increase CNR's traffic, decrease its tremendous deficits, will probably be the final answer to the debatable question : Can any government run a railroad? Yet he may not have time to give an answer. For many a railroadman last week felt that...
...distinguished service in your unequalled reporting of the recent Democratic National Convention (TIME, July 11). The delicate touches, wherein, without too great offending, you caricature the grotesque hyperbole of the keynote and nominating speeches, compensate for the suffering endured. Some day, perhaps, through the leadership of TIME, the high command of both parties will awake to the public's opinion of such exaggeration as was spread over six days and nights at the Chicago Stadium and will order a greatly condensed flow of partially sane oratory from nominators and seconders to the relief of listeners absent and present...
Spectators and newsmen shrank back in fear of what might happen if these angry thousands turned violent. The plaza remained uncleared. Waters was brought out and exhibited to his followers. He surlily refused to command them to retreat. Dangerous tension was broken when a buxom, yellow-haired woman leaped to the stand. She was Marotta Arsonis, a New York trained nurse who had befriended the B. E. F. Seizing a megaphone, she yelled: "Be calm, men! Be calm! Let's sing." She tuned up with "America...
...with all other S. P. men getting $10,000 or more. Completely shelved by the changes wall be Henry Wheeler De Forest, board chairman. His position will be abolished although he remains a director and on the executive committee. Net result of the changes, putting Hale Holden in supreme command, follows the trend of all roads toward simplification of control...
Four years later to the day after his first arrival Dr. Eckener landed again at Lakehurst, this time in command of the LZ-127 (Graf Zeppelin). His ship moored fast, Dr. Eckener left it to the horde of sightseers, sauntered across the floor of the dock, beamed up at the LZ-126, long since renamed. Eyes brimming, he muttered: "Das ist mein schatz" ("That's my baby...