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...ICC, which polices U.S. railroads, had no jurisdiction over the intracity deal. But a Senate investigations subcommittee, meeting in executive session, heard allegations that Chairman Cross went out of his way to present himself to the railroads as a character witness on behalf of Bidder Keeshin. Also discussed was an alleged job offer by Keeshin to Cross, who admitted that he helped Keeshin but flatly denied that his motive was anything more than friendship...
From that day forth, Negroes who pay for the same interstate accommodation as whites must get the same accommodation as whites; they must also be permitted to use the same railroad waiting rooms and washrooms as whites. Said the ICC: "The disadvantage to a traveler who is assigned accommodations or facilities so designated as to imply his inherent inferiority solely because of his race must be regarded under present conditions as unreasonable. Also, he is entitled to be free of annoyances, some petty and some substantial, which almost inevitably accompany segregation, even though the rail carriers . . . sincerely try to provide...
...Peace & Order." The ICC handed down its ruling in two specific decisions, upholding the complaint of various Negro passengers against 13 Southern railroads and a bus company. At issue in a broader sense was the Southern doctrine of "separate but equal" facilities for the races...
Warren Lee Pierson, 58, succeeded Belgium's Camille Gutt as president of the International Chamber of Commerce. Globe-hopping board chairman of Trans World Airlines since 1947, Pierson has been an effective advocate of lower tariffs and reciprocal trade as head of the ICC's United States Council. He was a World War I artillery lieutenant in France, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1922, served the Government as RFC counsel (1933)) president of the Export-Import Bank (1936-44), and U.S. delegate to the 1951-52 conference on Germany's $6 billion foreign debt. As 17th...
...reward, he was named a B. & M. director. At an early meeting of the new board, McGinnis expects to be named president of the B. & M. If he is, he can count on trouble from the Interstate Commerce Commission. No one at the ICC could remember that the agency had ever let one man serve as chief executive of two major roads. Furthermore, the ICC last week started an investigation to determine if it should permit the McGinnis group even to control the B.& M. In a preliminary opinion, an ICC official held that McGinnis and friends are al ready...