Word: denney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...succeed Northern Pacific's late Charles Donnelly is the job of big (225 Ibs.), reserved, ironhanded Charles Eugene Denney (59), taken from the presidency of the bankrupt Erie. It was the late, smart Railroader John J. Bernet (chief operating officer for the Van Sweringen railroad empire) who first saw that Charlie Denney had something. Son of a master watchmaker, Charlie Denney moved from newsboy to Penn State to Union Switch & Signal Co., through a multitude of railroad jobs to general manager of the Nickel Plate. Then Bernet took him to Erie, left him there as president when he went...
More than just roommates will be Gavin & Denney. From Chicago (by means of joint ownership of the rich Chicago, Burlington & Quincy) to the Pacific Coast their tracks run parallel (G. N. to the north). Bewhiskered, one-eyed, oathy James J. ("Jim") Hill tried to combine them in his G. N. railroad empire in 1895, failed, saw his dream of consolidation in God's country go up in smoke. Last year N. P. had a whopping $4,300,000 deficit; G. N. a piddling (for her) $2,700,000 profit. Today there is no talk of consolidating the twin grain...
Jerome LeR. Abrams '39, Boward F. Cline '39, Richard S. Fogelman '40, Frederick B. Frisch '40, Honry F. Haviland, Jr. '41, Bart J. Denney '41, Daniel Sciarra '40, Charloner B. Slade...
...eliminate Chesapeake Corp. entirely as an unnecessary corporate entity, these four opposed him. In December, when C. & O. President William Johnson Harahan died, they also opposed Robert Young's decision to elevate longtime General Manager George Doswell Brooke to the presidency. Instead they proposed that President Charles Eugene Denney of Erie R. R. be given...
Another attempt to settle the pension problem was made last week over a conference table in an office next to President Pelley's. On one side of the table sat Management in the person of Mr. Pelley, backstopped by such railroad notables as Erie's Charles Eugene Denney, Pennsylvania's Martin Withington Clement, Illinois Central's Downs, Union Pacific's Carl Raymond Gray, Santa Fe's Samuel Thomas Bledsoe, St. Paul's Henry Alexander Scandrett. On the other side of the table sat able, popular Chairman George M. Harrison of the Railway Labor...