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...next half-dozen years he proved his claim. He extricated the brotherhood from 30 of its 36 fiscal schemes. But he also implicated it and himself in a messy $10,000,000 bank failure-Cleveland's short-lived Standard Trust Bank, successor to the Engineers' National...
...candy, boarded an Illinois Central train at Cherokee, and told the conductor that he was the new candy butcher. At 17 he was a brakeman, at 26 a freight conductor and a union member who applied evangelistic fervor to his fellow workers' grievances. He got on the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen's national payroll 43 years ago. He has never been off it (present salary: $17,500). He has bitterly fought his brotherhood's conservatives as well as the railroads' bosses. In 1928, after 21 years as a vice president, he got what he had always...
...Banker." Even though his Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is the aristocrat of rail unions, stocky Alvanley Johnston is not the aristocrat of rail union leaders. Except for blunders which almost wrecked it, his 21-year career at the top has been notable for stodgy conservatism and heavy-handed secrecy...
About their being Boston-based, there is a take-off on the Unitarian credo-"The fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of Man, and the neighborhood of Boston...
...hours after he had ordered Government seizure of the rails, President Truman picked up his telephone. Once before, in the last half hour, he had talked with two men in Cleveland who could prevent the awful smash: Alexander Fell Whitney, the big-jawed, well-tailored president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen (211,000 members) and Alvanley Johnston, the crotchety Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (78,000 members). Now he talked again, and this time-just 26 minutes before the strike deadline-he got a promise. The strike was off, for five days, and the Messrs. Whitney...