Word: jeremiah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement with a $10,000,000 deal with Oris Paxton Van Sweringen (TIME, April 23). Last week after a trial before Cleveland's Judge Paul Jones, a jury of eight men and four women pronounced Mr. Nutt not guilty. Said he: "My conscience is clear." ¶ When John Jeremiah Pelley went to Washington to head the new Association of American Railroads (TIME, Oct 1), it was a foregone conclusion that his right-hand man, Howard Shirley Palmer, would succeed him as president of New York. New Haven & Hartford. Last week President Palmer, whose father was and is the Maine Central...
Railroaders, led by big John Jeremiah Pelley, chief of the newly-formed Association of American Railroads, point to the additional expense of pooling as justification of the present system...
...carriers of the U. S. have long felt the need for a fulltime Washington spokesman, a man of power, prestige and personality who would be authorized to strike and strike hard in their behalf. Last week in Chicago's Blackstone Hotel they picked their new leader-John Jeremiah Pelley, 56, president of New York, New Haven & Hartford...
...Somerville, Mass., Sign Painter Jeremiah Christopher Leonard bought a Madonna and Child from a junk shop for $6. For three years the painting hung in the Leonard parlor. Then it was shown to a doctor friend, an art connoisseur, who promptly called in experts. Boston Fogg and Metropolitan Museum people agreed that the picture was 400 to 500 years old. One expert thought it might be the work of Antoni Allegri (1494-1534), known as Correggio. If so, Sign Painter Leonard's painting might be worth...
...Prophet H. G. Wells there has been a swarm of soothsayers laying down the law, but rarely have their tables of stone weathered the drizzle of a single generation. Of the modestly minor interpreters of the modern U. S., Lewis Mumford has one of the most respectful followings. No Jeremiah, no hard-shell Marxian, with no patent axe to grind, he goes at the complex mass of modern civilization with all five senses. Technics and Civilization, scholarly, ambitious, big (495 pp.), does not attempt to be a Bible for any creed, but it may well prove to be a milestone...