 When the master of one of the greatest Western lines travels towards the Pacific on his palace car, his journey is like a royal progress. Governors of States and Territories bow before him ; legislatures receive him in solemn session ; cities and towns...  social institutions of the united states - Stran 44avtor: james bryce - 1891Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1915 - 976 strani
...royal progress. Governors of States bow before him: legislatures receive him in solemn session; cities seek to propitiate him, for has he not the means of...unpopular, and although this autocratic sway from a distanee contributes to their unpopularity, I do not think that the ruling magnates are themselves... | |
 | Walter Isaacson, Evan Thomas - 1997 - 852 strani
...Western lines travels toward the Pacific in his palace car," wrote the awed British observer Lord Bryce, "his journey is like a royal progress. Governors of...legislatures receive him in solemn session; cities seek to propitiate him." William Averell Harriman, born on November 15, 1891, bore many of his father's... | |
 | Dee Brown - 2001 - 324 strani
...his for life. When the master of one of the greatest Western lines travels toward the Pacific on his palace car, his journey is like a royal progress....the means of making or marring a city's fortunes?" On that late-summer excursion to the Western Sea, however, all was not well with the fortunes of Henry... | |
 | Werner Sombart, Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann - 408 strani
...has written: When the master of one of the greatest Western lines travels towards the Pacific on his palace car, his journey is like a royal progress....has he not the means of making or marring a city's fortunes?4 There is no half nor wholly feudal peasantry or class of artisans. In their place is a versatile... | |
 | Jill Jonnes - 2007 - 396 strani
...American railroad: "When the master of one of the great Western lines travels towards the Pacific in his palace car, his journey is like a royal progress....legislatures receive him in solemn session; cities seek to propitiate him." Nevertheless, PRR president Tom Scott, tall, elegant, with a distinctive white... | |
 | Viscount James Bryce - 2007 - 297 strani
...his for life. When the master of one of the greatest Western lines travels towards the Pacific on his palace car, his journey is like a royal progress....legislatures receive him in solemn session ; cities seek to propitiate him, for has he not the means of making or marring a city's fortunes ? Although... | |
 | 1909 - 568 strani
...men of America. When the master of one of the great western lines travels toward the Pacific in his palace car, his journey is like a royal progress....him, for has he not the means of making or marring the city's fortune ?" A worse picture might have been drawn than that of the august potentate and his... | |
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