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...fills his own bulging vest does Sir Josiah Charles Stamp fill his various important posts in London. As a Director of the Bank of England, this pink and pleasant knight is second only in reputation to Montagu Norman. He is also chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, a colonel of the Royal Engineers, general treasurer of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and a much sought-after lecturer at Oxford and Cambridge...
...odds on Peace in the Far East rose sharply last week. Japan and Soviet Russia had virtually reached the end of their huge haggle over the famed Chinese Eastern Railway. This road meandering for 1,000 mi. across the upper half of Japan's puppet state Manchukuo cost Tsarist Russia $400,000,000 (preWar) to build. Its normal annual profit from 1924 to 1930 was nearly 20,000,000 gold rubles* a year. Even in 1933, after Japan had seized Manchuria, it earned 11,500,000 rubles. It was shorter, by 3,300 mi., than the Trans-Siberian Railroad...
...replaced. Mr. Willard, now 73, does not call as often as he once did at the White House. President Roosevelt does his railroad talking now with men like Carl Gray of Union Pacific and Federal Transportation Coordinator Eastman. Lawyer-Lobbyist Robert Virgil Fletcher of the Association of Railway Executives has so far failed to draw any aces from the New Deal for his employers. Therefore the carriers of the U. S. have long felt the need for a fulltime Washington spokesman, a man of power, prestige and personality who would be authorized to strike and strike hard in their behalf...
Before the railroads could name their spokesman, however, they had to create a job for him. The two leading trade bodies were the American Railway Association, which compiles the weekly figures on car loadings, and the Association of Railway Executives, which represents railroad management. Neither association was strong enough to hold the proud & jealous rail systems of the country together on long-range policies. So last week the 150 Class I railroads voted to merge the two associations as the Association of American Railroads. Its platform...
...became THE Mrs. Simpson last month at Biarritz where His Royal Highness welcomed her as she arrived, carried her suitcase out of the railway coach...