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Lenin in October (Amkino). For over a year U. S. Stalinists have been noisily picketing the film Tsar to Lenin (TIME, March 22, 1937), prepared by Trotskyist Author Max Eastman from newsreels and film records of the Russian revolution. Reason: the reels showed Old Bolshevik Leon Trotsky as the busiest and best aide, discovered Stalin in but one group shot, standing obscurely to Lenin's left in a bad light...
...first time in 17 years- $2,136,481, against a net operating income of'$38,792,779 in February 1937 and $58,367,529 in February 1930. Two days later Franklin Roosevelt told a press conference at Warm Springs, Ga. that the special railroad report of ICCommissioners Splawn, Eastman & Mahaffie, given to him fortnight ago, would not be made public until after he had conferred in Washington this week with a group of operating railroaders. Then, said the President, definite recommendations would be sent to Congress in a special message...
...Rushed by airmail to Franklin Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga. was the special report on the railroad crisis prepared by Interstate Commerce Commissioners Walter M. W. Splawn, Joseph B. Eastman and Charles D. Mahttie. Meantime, in Washington, the Association of American Railroads and the Railway Labor Executives Association "decided to wait and see what the President is going to do'' before discussing wage cuts. Said R.L.E.A. President George L. Harrison after the meeting: "They told us how poor they were." Said A.A.R. President J. J. Pelley: "And they told us how poor they were...
...conference was white-thatched Carl Raymond Gray, who at 70 retired last year from the presidency of the Union Pacific and is famed for his modernization of that big line, his benevolent relations with employes. The others who attended were ICC Commissioners Walter M. W. Splawn, Joseph Bartlett Eastman and Charles Delahunt Mahaffie, Senators Burton Kendall Wheeler and Harry S. Truman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. Chairman Clarence Frederick Lea of the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee. President George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association, President Henry Bruere of Manhattan's Bowery Savings Bank, Secretary of Treasury...
Railroad stocks and bonds slumped. Meanwhile, various ICC members sought to explain their attitude. Only Commissioner Charles D. Mahaffie contended that the increase was not large enough. The other commissioners agreed with outspoken Joseph Eastman, onetime Coordinator of Transportation, who remarked: "It is unnecessary to say that an increase in railroad rates cannot furnish an adequate answer to our transportation problem. At best it is only a palliative and whether it is even that remains to be seen...