Intermediate Rate Association, Spokane Records 1918-1938

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Intermediate Rate Association, Spokane Records 1918-1938

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Minutes, correspondence, publications, speeches and addresses, extracts and legal briefs, rate information and other papers of a western businessmen's association responsible for legislative lobbying, governmental hearings and other opposition to railroad rate discrimination in the inter-mountain area. Many items concern the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Gooding Bill.

2 containers.; 1 linear feet of shelf space.; 200 items.

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Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)

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United States. Interstate Commerce Commission

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Clyde Bruce Aitchison (1875-1962) was an attorney and Interstate Commerce Commissioner. He was born in Iowa, educated at Hastings College, Neb., University of Oregon, and American University. He began the practice of law at Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1896, and moved to Portland, Ore., in 1903. He was Commissioner of the Oregon Railroad Commission and its successor the Public Service Commission, 1907-1916, and solicitor for the National Association of Railroad Commissioners, 1916-1917. From 1917 to ...

Intermediate Rate Association.

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The Intermediate Rate Association (IRA) was formally organized at a convention of western businessmen on June 13, 1921 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The organization took its name from the then current railroad practice of illegally charging a greater rate on freight for east or westbound transcontinental traffic dropped at "intermediate" points than was charged to more distant points of destination. Thus, a businessman was charged more to ship goods by rail from Chicago to Spokane, Wash...

Gooding, Frank Robert, 1859-1928

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