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...emaciated, unkempt, aging man who looks more than his 50 years was taken out of prison in Prince Albert, Sask. one night last week, bundled hastily into a railway car. On the eastern edge of Canada, at Halifax, a ship awaited him. He would be put aboard, taken to his native Russia. There, he felt sure, waited Death. He was Peter Verigin II, leader of Western Canada's 17,000 Doukhobors. With him were government officials, to hustle him along, keep his progress quiet. When the train reached Montreal Peter Verigin II was hustled through the station so that...
...Those fellows" were the Interstate Commerce Commission and the "Big Four" railway systems-New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Pennsylvania. They had balked his every effort to form another great Eastern system which would be L. F. Loree's monument. As a railroad man in the gaudy tradition of Vanderbilt, Harriman and Hill, Leonor Loree was known & feared, but Vanderbilt, Harriman and Hill had their big systems and bearded old Mr. Loree had only the smallish Delaware & Hudson and Kansas City Southern. Between them was a great gap. But L. F. Loree was tenacious...
...prestige L. F. Loree may sometimes have reflected cynically that if he had not been such a good executive he might have become a greater power. By nature, training and beard he belongs in the tradition of the earlier rail tycoons. From Rutgers, at 19, he went into railway engineering on Western roads, quit to carry a tripod with the Army Engineer Corps, quit that to survey a right of way for the Mexican National Railway. In 1883 he went to the Pennsylvania and began to make himself known. He could speedily dig out traffic stalled in snowdrifts; he reconstructed...
...Railway managements envied the coal-carrying Chesapeake & Ohio, kingpin of the Van Sweringen structure, which earned $23,384,000 against $26.558,000, or $3.06 a share against...
...fortyish, Chicago socialite music-lover, divorced wife of Explorer-Stockbroker John Borden. Since the death of his wife, Rue Winterbotham Carpenter in 1931 and his latest composition Patterns (TIME, Oct. 31), hard times have forced Composer Carpenter to be attentive to his late father's factory (now mill & railway supplies). The marriage date was contingent on Mrs. Borden's raising $100,000 in $1 donations for a music temple at the Chicago Century of Progress fair...