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Legislative hobbies: silver, farmers, railways. A Senator of so many liberal interests champions many a lost cause. One pet cause backed by Senator Wheeler which won: recognition of Soviet Russia ("We're suckers if we don't"). An expert on railway affairs, he has long favored lower valuations, lower rates. Two years ago he was out for a "Farmers' RFC" capitalized at $500,000,000 authorized to issue thrice that amount in debentures. His big campaign of late has been 16-to-1 silver. He is leader of the Western Silver bloc which has crowded President Roosevelt...
...Vagabond stirred uneasily in his cell in Mem Hall tower. What was this noise that broke in on his reverie? What bedlam dared intrude on his solitude? Outside, on Kirkland Street, on Broadway, on Mass Avenue the clatter of the American Railway Express, the long-distance moving vans and the less shiny, but far more serviceable vans of local concerns broke the silence of a dismal September...
With showers of blue sparks the great European expresses slid into Geneva's railway station last week, and out of the windows came the bags & brief cases of many a diplomat. Both the Council and the General Assembly of the League of Nations were reopening...
...meantime he made his reputation as a liberal in his own profession. He fought for Labor and against great corporations. He became counsel for the railway brotherhoods. As counsel for the National Conference on the Valuation of Railroads, he helped to write the Railway Labor Act of 1926. He was special counsel for the city in Chicago's attack on the Insull gas company. As a friend of the court, he argued the O'Fallon Railroad valuation case before the Supreme Court...
...income but gross revenues as well were sliding. The first 15 roads to report showed a 7% drop in gross and a 42%, drop in net from July 1933. And though they intend to fight its Constitutionality, the railroads face additional charges of $65,000,000 annually under the Railway Pension Act passed by the last Congress...