Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interstate Commerce Commission last week chose a new chairman for 1930 and simultaneously gave him more work to do than he or anyone else could possibly accomplish in a year's time. By a process of rotation Frank McManamy, whose I. C. C. service began 23 years ago as a clerk, was advanced to the head of the Commission to succeed Ernest Irving Lewis. Chairman McManamy will need all his knowledge-and experience as a practical railroad man to cope with the task assigned him, because last week the Commission adopted and published its long-delayed plan for consolidating...
...further and further to starboard until only seasoned Captain Albert R. Francis, his pilot, and a skeleton crew of twelve vigorous pumpers remained on board. An attempt was made to tow the foundering vessel to shore, but at length the bubbling water closed over it. Captain Francis and Pilot Frank Moran, last to slide down one horizontal side, were hauled by rescuers out of the Fort Victoria's sinking whorl. All the crew and 255 passengers-everyone aboard-had been saved without accident except a fainting spell which overcame a Mrs. Nellie Stringer of Brooklyn who suffers from sleeping...
...foundations for the world's largest farm cooperative-a $30,000,000 cotton sales organization built around the American Cotton Growers Exchange. Into the national agency will be merged the cotton cooperatives of 15 states. Critic Lowden. To a meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation last week Frank Orren Lowden, onetime Governor of Illinois and "farmers' friend," addressed these words: "If there has been any substantial change for the better in the general farm situation since last year, it has escaped my notice. ... It is unfortunate for this impression to go abroad. . . . The [federal] machinery created...
...appointed a new acting warden, Dr. Frank L. Christian, superintendent of the Elmira Reformatory, humanitarian...
...Other famed 79ers: Frank Presbrey (advertising), Trustee Cyrus Hall McCormick (Board Chairman of International Harvester Co.): Trustee Edward Wright Sheldon (Manhattan lawyer); onetime Princeton Dean William Francis Magie; the late financier Cleveland Hoadley Dodge; the late famed Judge Alfred Salem Niles of Baltimore; the late Banker Trustee Parker Douglas Handy of Manhattan; Robert Harris McCarter, onetime (1903-08) Attorney-General of New Jersey; the late Peter Joseph Hamilton of Mobile, author, onetime (1913-21) Judge of Porto Rican District Court...