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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reactions. Western senators raised a great hue and cry against the proposed marriage of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, claiming it would eliminate all competition. Chairman-elect McManamy concurred in the general plan "only because I expect economy and efficiency of operation to be promoted by the gigantic systems proposed. . . . We should not, to open the door to lawful consolidations, propose consolidations which are themselves unlawful and that I think we have done...
...essence of the complaint against Grundy: He had raised large amounts of cash to help elect Governor Fisher in 1926 and therefore his hands and the hands of Governor Fisher were as "soiled" with excessive political expenditures as Senator-Reject Vare...
...slightly shattered after the worst Atlantic storm in 50 years. Plutarco Elias Calles, onetime president, most potent of Mexicans, stepped from the Bremen to Brooklyn last week, was welcomed by 50 Mexican officials including Manuel C. Tellez, Mexican Ambassador to Washington, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Mexico's President-elect. An unexpected damper to the official welcome was the announced intention of one John A. Vails, District Attorney of Laredo, Tex., to arrest Señor Calles for the murder seven years ago of two Mexican officers whose bodies, handcuffed together, were found floating in the Rio Grande. Wires from...
...Manhattan, President-elect Rubio was lunched by Morgan-Partner Thomas W. Lament and United Pressman Karl A. Bickel, conferred with Mayor Walker, Police Commissioner Whalen...
...Captain-elect B. H. Ticknor '31 has been selected by Grantland Rice as center on his All-American Football Team. Grantland Rice, who is the logical successor to Walter Camp, is foremost in the United States of the many who have picked mythical elevens this year. Ticknor beat out Heinecke of Stanford for the position, and he would not have done so except for his weight advantage of twenty pounds and his superior speed...