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The purpose of these conferences has been to develop a plan of consolidation according to the terms of the Transportation Act, yet satisfactory to the leading roads themselves. Apart from the New England roads, there are now nine roads in this territory, and the problem really is how they can...
Away back in 1889 Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil, reformer and pacifist, lost his throne by decreeing the release of hundreds of thousands of slaves belonging to the coffee planters without compensation. At the same time his pacifism alienated the militarists and his refusal to grant them the rights...
If Sproule, the affable and keen-minded, can achieve this end, it will be one of the great consolidation achievements of the decade. It will link up a new railway system from Chicago to the Coast. And, incidentally, it will virtually complete the first of the major group consolidations laid...
First in their ranks is Robert M. LaFollette. He is an Independent, running on his own platform, made to order for him by the Conference for Progressive Political Action. The C. P. P. A. endorsed him. So did the Socialist Party. His movement is made up principally of insurgent Republicans...
Mud. Only the waning season can account for the descent upon the stage of a comedy like this. It represents the efforts of various groups to gain possession of a farm which contains a beauty clay and therefore becomes, for the purposes of farce, as precious as the Ruhr valley...