Word: lehigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...option on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway. This is a 600-mi., Y-shaped road joining Pennsylvania's soft coal and steel districts to Lakes Erie and Ontario. It lay as an important joint for him to connect his Delaware & Hudson, the Wabash (which he controlled) and the Lehigh Valley (which he thought he controlled). It was a pretty railroad layout and promised to compete with the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio established systems, and with the Van Sweringen brothers' pattern of the fourth system...
Then last spring Mr. Loree in a vicious, nerve-wracking stock-voting contest for control of the Lehigh Valley lost to Lehigh's President Edward Eugene Loomis. The fifth system thus could no longer be. Leonor Fresnel Loree, hard-bitten railroader that he is, was thwarted, vanquished.* At once he sold his Lehigh Valley and Wabash stocks to the Pennsyl-vania...
Applications for the Harvard-Lehigh football game on November 3 and the Harvard-Pennsylvania game on November 10 will close at the H. A. A. office tomorrow. All applications must be in the hands of the H. A. A. by 6 o'clock on that day. Graduates are warned that no attention will be paid to the post mark on their applications unless these are received at the H. A. A. by 6 o'clock...
...seats may be applied for for the Lehigh game, while the Pennsylvania applications are limited to four. The price of Pennsylvania tickets is $4. and that of the Lehigh tickets is $2. for reserved seats and $1. for general admission...
General admission tickets for the Lehigh game may be secured at the Harvard Club, Wright and Ditson's, Horace Partridge's, and J. W. Brine's in Boston, and at the H. A. A. and Leavitt and Peirce's in Cambridge...