Senate quizzes Wabash R.R. head. Washington, D.C., Dec. 20. Before the Senate Rail Inquiry today, A.K. Atkinson, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Wabash Railroad, testified that from January 1926 through January 1927, the road secretly purchased 231,319 shares of Lehigh Valley stock at a cost of $23,263,571. These purchases were made, Atkinson said, without authority of the Board of Directors. Chairman Wheeler indicated the transactions a "shocking revelation" and urged immediate legislative action to curtail the "juggling of books," 122037

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Senate quizzes Wabash R.R. head. Washington, D.C., Dec. 20. Before the Senate Rail Inquiry today, A.K. Atkinson, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Wabash Railroad, testified that from January 1926 through January 1927, the road secretly purchased 231,319 shares of Lehigh Valley stock at a cost of $23,263,571. These purchases were made, Atkinson said, without authority of the Board of Directors. Chairman Wheeler indicated the transactions a "shocking revelation" and urged immediate legislative action to curtail the "juggling of books," 122037

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A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch five.

The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)

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01/01/1937
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No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html

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