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...went to work for his father, now president of the Kansas City Southern, as assistant to the general manager. From there on, the tracks were cleared. Deramus Sr. worked with a stockholders' group that was dissatisfied with the management of Chicago Great Western, succeeded in making Coalman Grant Stauffer president last fall. Stauffer made young Bill Deramus his assistant in the Great Western, whose 1,500 miles of track tap six Midwestern states. Young Bill trimmed costs so well that when Stauffer died last March, he was the logical man for the presidency. Now with freight carload-ings...
...Coalman. Railroad Juggler Robert R. Young juggled his high command. To run the coal-hauling Chesapeake & Ohio while President Robert J. Bowman is on sick leave, the board named a coalman, Walter J. Tuohy, 47, as first vice president. A graduate of De Paul University, Tuohy was boss of Chicago's Globe Coal Co. when he joined the C. & O. in 1943 as vice president in charge of coal operations. Still unfilled was the vacancy left by Financial Vice President William H. Wenneman, who resigned because "too many [C. & O.] activities have been undertaken for the sole purpose...
...Coalman John L. Lewis...
...late 1920s Founder Arthur J. Morris of the Morris Plan banks and four other members of a syndicate bought 14,550 shares of Industrial Finance Corp. stock from the late Pennsylvania Coalman John Markle. The price was $95 a share. It happened that Industrial Finance Corp., parent of Morris Plan banks, was under obligation to repurchase that stock at $105. Eventually the syndicate including Arthur Morris and four other directors of Industrial, sold the shares to the corporation, at a profit...
Died. George Fulmer Getz, 72, Chicago coalman, onetime (1933-36) treasurer of the Republican National Committee; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach...