Word: hille
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Softspoken, friendly, unostentatious, L. & N.'s new president has long been known to railroad's rank & file as "Plain Jim." No kin of famed Empire Builder James Jerome Hill, he was born of poor Tennessee mountainfolk, learned railroad telegraphy at 13, won a $100 scholarship to George Peabody College for Teachers at 15 and graduated three years later as a licensed schoolteacher. He abandoned an academic career to take a $15-a-month job as relief station agent in a tiny town called Bon Air. One day he applied for a better job, was asked if he knew...
...resident of Nashville, President Hill will soon move to Louisville. His first major task will be to air-condition L. & N. trains.* As for streamlining, he plans to "stand on the sidelines and watch others move." Slight and grey-haired, at 56 President Hill looks less like a major railroad executive than the schoolmaster he once set out to be. A banker on the side, he is married, has two children, will get twice as much ($40,500) in his new job as in his old. Negro Cook Humphrey Bowling of "No. 99," the president's private car, rates...
...Equally important, from an operating standpoint, is the L. & N. fight with Federal Coordinator Joseph Bartlett Eastman which President Hill inherited. Fortnight ago three Federal judges in Chicago found against L.& N. in its effort to switch crack Florida-Chicago trains from debt-ridden Chicago & Eastern Illinois to New York Central's "Big Four." To the U. S. Supreme Court L. & N. may appeal the court's decision upholding Mr. Eastman...
When the Baiata gang stepped into Lincoln Life the biggest stockholder was Harmey B (for nothing) Hill, who stayed on as board chairman. Supposedly ignorant of the plot, he was nevertheless ousted by the authorities along with the Baiata regime. Last week newshawks found him still at his office, a quid in his cheek, a book on his desk called Why Worry? What did he have to say? "I'll have plenty to say?when the time comes...
...That time never came for Harmey B Hill. Next day at dusk his body was found in his sedan on a roadside three miles from his home town. In his head was one bullet, in his hand a gun with one shot fired. But through the car's windows were also five bullet holes...