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...statesman, a former patient of Dr. Wilmer's, a check; from J. P. Morgan, $100,000; from George F. Baker and George F. Baker Jr., $100,000; from Frank Munsey, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Julius Rosenwald, Joseph E. Widener, Felix M. Warburg, Samuel Sachs, Benjamin Stern, Mrs. Henry R. Rea, James Speyer and other contributors, came generous gifts...
Finally, to bring order out of chaos, there has been a gathering of chieftains in Washington; the leading figures are Daniel Willard, President of the B. & O.; Samuel Rea, President of the Pennsylvania; Patrick E. Crowley, new President (TIME, Apr. 14) of the New York Central; and last but not least, C. P. and M. T. Van Sweringen. The principal reason for this gathering was to agree as to who should get what...
...business today involves credit, and all credit involves the metal gold. The yellow metal has been chosen over an experience of centuries as the best known substance out of which to coin money, for many rea- sons. Among these is the fact that gold is scarce, and a supposedly elementary substance...
...Samuel Rea, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad system, will retire in 1925 at the age of 70. His probable successor is W. W. Atterbury, Vice President, in charge of operation...
...Samuel Rea began as a clerk in a country store. At 16 he went railroading, and 31 found him, mature, assistant engineer in the construction of chain suspension bridges over the Monongahela at Pittsburgh. Finally, as head of the 12,000-mile system employing 250,000 men, he became one of the three or four dominating powers in American transportation. He is considered largely responsible for many features of the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act, whereby the roads were returned to private control...