Word: brakeman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Whitefield Welch of Louisville, Ky., the Southerner who will head the Northern Presbyterians for the next year, is slight, sandy-haired, 60, and probably the only man who ever combined the two jobs of Presbyterian Moderator and railway brakeman. Once a bobbin boy in a Kentucky mill, he earned money for his education by working on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, still keeps his union card by making two runs a year, in uniform, from Louisville to Bowling Green. Theologically a moderate, Moderator Welch has been pastor of Louisville's Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church since...
Henry Clay French was an orphan who got a job as callboy on the Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad in Kansas City back in 1873. Learning telegraphy in his spare time, he was a full-fledged operator at 14, a combined telegrapher and brakeman on the Santa Fe three years later. For the next 50 years he was shunted from line to line like a boxcar in a busy season. He saw hard living in Kansas cow towns, hard drinking at Northwest division points, hard work everywhere. Last week his son, a brakeman himself, offered Harry French's biography...
...died. Moroseness drove him to unforgivable railroad sins: abandoning his train in the middle of a run; deliberately tying up traffic until three freights and two passenger trains were stalled at one station. His growing sons cured him of that; he worked his way back to respectability as a brakeman on the Union Pacific, retired on his pension of one dollar a day. Humorless in its domestic episodes, woodenly written except for pages of authentic railroad talk, Railroadman is nevertheless a first-rate U. S. document, the best picture going of an old-time rank & file member of the powerful...
...bestseller, which Miss Skinner tailored to fit herselves, is a girl who marries the wrong man. In 1900 Edna was a small-town blonde, a frontporch girl. In 1937 she is white-haired and miserable in the luxury of a New York penthouse. Reason: she jilted the simple-hearted brakeman who loved her for an ambitious young lawyer who loved success...
...Spievak lost both legs at 17 as a brakeman on the Erie Railroad, is so agile at 50 he can kick a football. Light-haired, bespectacled, he is president of Youngstown (Pa.) Artificial Limb Co., which turns out 150 limbs a year. To succeed him the delegates last week chose 50-year-old Clyde Aunger, who at 16 lost a leg in a trolley car accident. In business for himself in San Francisco since 1911, he was taken to Australia during the War to teach his trade. President Aunger's pride is a music box in the calf...