A suit for ten million dollars against the Quaker Oats Company, its directors, and the directors of the Great Western Cereal Company, has been filled in the United States district court at Chicago by receivers of the cereal company.
A sweeping declaration in favor of the principle of government ownership of telephone and telegraph lines, and an assertion that the postal service now is self-supporting for the first time since 1883, are features of the annual report of Postmaster-General Burleson.
The first good roads bill to be introduced in the House of Representatives is that which has just been presented by Chairman Shackleford, chairman of the roads committee.
Conferences have taken place between the United States attorney-general and the chairman of the board of directors of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, with the probable result that a basis of dissolution which would restore competition in New England transportation and meet the government's demands will be reached some time in the near future without a court fight.
A decision that is expected to have a farreaching effect in determining land titles in cases in which compaines and private parties have made improvements without obtaining proper authority from the secretary of the interior, was handed down by the United States circuit court of appeals at St.
The House committee on interstate and foreign commerce is taking the initiative on a plan for a general revision of the laws affecting water-power development.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has decided to undertake an investigation into the conditions under which instruction in the law is conducted in the United States.
The beginning of a new, scientific investigation of the industrial situation, under the direction of President Wilson, which will contribute to the administration's trust legislation program at the session of Congress beginning Dec.
Government ownership of railroads as a remedy for high finance, low wages, and high rates, was brought forward in the discussion of railway physical valuation at the twenty-fifth annual convention of the National Association of Railway Commissioners at Washington, by Clifford Thorne of the Iowa commission.
More than one fifth of the men who served in the army and navy of the United States during the civil war were on the government's pension roll at the beginning of the present fiscal year.
