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Roscoe Pound '90, former Dean of the Law School, has been appointed chairman of the American Bar Association's committee on administrative law by Arthur T. Vanderbilt, it was reported yesterday...
...Went through the formality of electing New Jersey's Arthur T. Vanderbilt, who had been nominated by A. B. A. delegates last January, president to succeed Minneapolis' Frederick Harold Stinchfield. Lawyer Vanderbilt, 49, is a liberal Republican who, in addition to an active practice, has taught Law at New York University Law School for 23 years, been Chairman of the Judicial Council of New Jersey for seven...
...Vanderbilt then dominated the swift rising New York Central. His chief rival was the Pennsylvania, but both railroads kept to their own backyards until a scandalously promoted third line, the West Shore, began paralleling Vanderbilt's tracks along the west bank of the Hudson to the Port of New York. Angry clear through he decided that if the Central was to suffer from competition close to home, so was the Pennsylvania. Acquiring the "South Penn" charter, Vanderbilt declared a railroad war, sent 300 engineers and thousands of laborers trooping into the rugged, coal-bearing Alleghenies, with orders to build...
...which more than $10,000,000 was poured into rights, roadbeds and tunnels, the competing lines agreed to return again to their backyards. So eight months before completion the "South Penn" was abandoned, peace reigned in the Alleghenies and no appreciable dent was made in the $200,000,000 Vanderbilt fortune...
...residents the ancient roadbed has long been "Vanderbilt's Folly"; when it was proposed to make it into a motor road, cynical post-War Pennsylvanians dubbed it "Dream Highway." Last week the first contracts were let for draining the tunnels and Pennsylvania prepared to spend $73,000,000 to make the dream come true. The new four lane road is the straightest practical line from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh, its 164½ miles being 40 miles shorter than the present Lincoln Highway-which it crosses three times. Of the almost 14,000 ft. of cumulative climb on the Lincoln Highway...