Rail merger plan blocked by Interstate Commerce Commission
The Van Sweringen brothers proposed a Nickel Plate railroad merger with control via preferred stock. The ICC rejected the financial structure as unjust and unreasonable, warning the plan kept control among proponent minority interests. Wall Street dumped stocks in the ensuing record trading day.
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Chesapeake & Ohio
Hocking Valley
Pere Marquette
Erie
van Sweringen
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Baltimore & Ohio
N Financial
Wall Street
Coolidge
Secretary Kellogg Seeks End to Mexico Dispute over Clergy Laws
Secretary of State Kellogg told the Senate foreign relations committee he sent a note to Mexico hoping to end the dispute over land and laws. Mexico bans foreign Protestant ministers in the same category as Catholics, expelling clergy ending in New York. Vera Cruz Tamaulipas limit priests per community with strict quotas. The League of Nations council in Geneva was expected to have a lively session.
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Germany
Poland
Doctor Stresemann
Council
London
Mussolini
Spain
Vatican
League
Council For
Brazil
Europe
America
Chamber of Deputies
Briand
Senate
State Department
Secretariat
League of Nations
World Court
Department
Kellogg
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
King
Utah
United States
New York
Vera Cruz
Tamaulipas
Texas Items Show Sparse Gains Across State Economy
A mosaic of Texas data shows varied activity from oil and fuel to land sales and municipal bonds. Reports cite crude output, road work, peach tree plantings, and a Fort Worth bond package while Fire losses in February totaled 753 642 and Harris County set a new tax collection record.
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Coast
Texas
Wichita Falls
Floresville
Cherokee County
East Texas
P. T. Cole
Cotton Belt Railway
Henderson County
Attorney General’s Department
City of Fort Worth
City and County Hospital
Railroad Commission
Miranda City
Noreda
Bruni
Galveston
Houston
Texas City
Baytown
Beaumont
Orange
Sabine Pass
Port Arthur
West Port Arthur
Atreco
Magpeteo
Nederland
Port Neches
Smith’s Bluff
Sun
State Fire Insurance Commission
Harris County
Chicago politics reach national interest amid factional fights
The piece notes Chicago politics drawing national attention as Republican factions clash and calls for a congressional probe of crime conditions. It reports Democrat George R. Brennan entering the Illinois Senate race against incumbent McKinley with a two plank platform: modify the Volstead act and Chicago home rule.
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Chicago
Congress
Ilinois
George R. Brennan
Illinois
Senate
Mr. McKinley
Champaign
Frank Smith
Brennan
Hill Re-elected Chair guides Volstead Act hearings
Representative Hill of Maryland was re elected chairman of the unofficial committee on modification of the Volstead act and tasked to form a five member temperance board. Hearings begin March 31 to draft a revision of prohibition law. Congressional and private input sought on prohibition and its outcomes. Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt return from Asia with animal specimens. Theodore hints at possible future office run in New York.
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Morrow
Davis
War Department
Air Service
Representative Morin
Pennsylvania
Representative Hill
Maryland
Congress
Temperance Board
Ep Beodore
Kermit Roosevelt
Central
Asia
Theodore
New York
Empire State
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House Military Affairs Committee
Army Air Service
Air Corps
Department of National Defense
Yraex Organization
Middle Western
Washington
West
Jardine
Department of Agriculture
Farm Organizations
Watson-Parker
Railroad Labor Board
House
Watson- Parker
Western Railroads
Peking
China
Feng Yuhsiang
Chang Tso-lin
Manchuria
Wu Pei-fu
Morocco
Abd-el-Krim
League of Nations Council
Geneva
P. D. Kimmey
Huntington
Lufkin
Internal Revenue Collector
Eek
Council of Mouth Hygiene and Public Instruction of
The
Texas State Dental Society
State Department of Health
State Department of Education
Bassett Blakely
Browneville
San Leon
Texas City Board of Trade
Longview
Dean
OC. Smith
Conchott
Coleman
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Mfg
Buffalo
N.Y
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Spirin
Bayer
Carel
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