Word: beyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grim-faced in Chicago last week sat Board Chairman Dr. William Morris Leiserson, his fellow members, Otto Sternoff Beyer and George Cook. Grim also was the Pennsylvania's H. A. Enochs, chairman of the committee of 15 representing the railroads, which maintained, as they had from the first, that a wage reduction was "necessary, justified, and inevitable." Grimmest of all were President George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association (775,000 union men) and President Alexander F. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (150,000 members). Labormen Harrison and Whitney, despite a quarrel that had them scowling...
...born Dr. William Morris Leiserson, onetime professor of economics at Antioch College and a lifelong expert on arbitration. His present fellow members are both 200-pounders: George Cook, who began his career as a railroad timekeeper and has worked for every railroad mediation body since 1920, and Otto Sternoff Beyer, who assisted Joseph Eastman when he was Transportation Coordinator. The National Mediation Board's record has been good-out of 407 cases in fiscal 1936-37, 259 were successfully settled; last year Dr. Leiserson arbitrated the dispute which got the railway unions a 7 ½% wage rise...
...dispute promises to be more difficult because both sides are obstinately entrenched, management insisting that the roads cannot continue in business without reducing wage costs, labor relying on the Administration's oft-reiterated stand that cutting wages is against the best interests of the U. S. Messrs. Leiserson, Beyer and Cook last week hoped to settle the wrangle, but most observers guessed that the case would progress to the final stage provided by the Railway Labor Act-either appointment of an emergency investigating board by the President or arbitration by a group jointly appointed by the opposing sides...
...quotations are from A History of the Orient, by Professors Steiger, Beyer and Benitez, published...
...Shortly afterwards. Widow Becker became acquainted with one Lambert Beyer, who, since he had both money and poor health, was most attractive to her. She became his nurse, cared for him (and for the 40,000 francs in securities which he habitually kept in his apartment) with great tenderness. He died...