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Professor Ripley has been a professor at Harvard since 1901. Since that time he has written many well-known books, including "Trusts, Pools, and Corporations", "Railway Problems", "Railrads: Rates and Regulation", and "Railroads--Finance and Organization". He was Administrator of Labor Standards in the War Department in 1918, and has been for some years an advisor to the Interstate Commerce Commission...
Last week the railroads of the land chuffed their freight rate problem back into the roundhouse that is the Interstate Commerce Commission. Presented by the Association of Railway Executives was a petition accepting the Commission's suggestion of a credit pool-but with major amendments...
...Alfonso XIII (TIME, April 27). He put Queen Victoria Eugenie, the ailing Crown Prince and the rest of the Spanish Royal Family on a train at Madrid and said the last goodbye. As their glory and his reflected glory faded, the Count sat stunned by his emotions on a railway station bench. Last week Count de Romanones rose courageously in the Socialist and savagely antiMonarchist National Assembly. For perhaps the last time Monarchist de Romanones defended with all his forensic skill the Last of the Bourbons...
Died, Louis Loucheur, 59, French industrialist, member of the Chamber of Deputies, owner of Le Petit Journal (Parisian daily); of heart disease; in Paris. Son of a railway crossing-keeper, he became a successful engineer and contractor, was employed at 23 by the Chemin de Fer du Nord to enlarge its trackage. With Alexandre Girod as partner he built an electric power station at Wagenthal near industrious Lille. Engineer Loucheur headed the Society of Electric Power of Paris, electrified the French, Italian, Russian and Turkish railways, built power plants and a railway in the Alps. At the outbreak...
Patrick Edward ("Pull-Eighty-Cars") Crowley, resigned as president of New York Central lines, will be succeeded by Frederic Ely Williamson, president of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, who will be succeeded by Ralph Budd, president of Great Northern Railway. This triple play among major railroads spelled the end of Mr. Crowley's leadership of Central, although he still remained a director. Ill health was given as the cause but Wall Street whispered that "Pat" Crowley had lost his fight with Central's bankers over Pennsylvania Railroad's desire for Nickel Plate trackage rights along Lake Erie (TIME...