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...great system has made a deliberate and successful effort to accommodate the U. S. Government. No rail president is more popular in Washington than B. & O.'s Daniel Willard. He first won the favor of President Harding in 1922 when he promptly settled on equitable terms the great shipmen's strike for his line while other carrier presidents were stubbornly bucking the union. White House rail patronage was shifted from the Pennsylvania to the B. & O. where it remains to this day for all presidential excursions westward. The B. & O. carried Herbert Hoover back and forth across...
...farmer's disposal (see p. 11), like sharp discrimination between Agriculture and Industry. President Coolidge signed the Jones-White Merchant Marine bill, providing this increase, the same day he vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill also provided comforting U. S. mail contracts for U. S. shipmen. President Coolidge's main reasons for approving the ship bill were two: It was designed to put more merchantmen operating from the U. S., under the U. S. flag; it required only five out of the seven votes of the U. S. Shipping Board to dispose of the 300-odd Government-owned ships remaining from...
There are extremists is every cause. And pacifism has gained a connotation too far removed from that which it should unquestionably possess. But this parading of the West Point regiment and the mid-shipmen also bears the stigma of a certain false valuation. Not by parading either war or peace, but by understanding both can the citizens of the lake city improve their morale. And in commending such a parade the eastern press merely adds to the popular misconception of modern issues of international intellectual and morale progress...
After the match the team will leave Philadelphia for Annapolis, where they meet the Naval Academy team at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The mid-shipmen won a 6 to 3 victory over Harvard last year...