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Official spokesman for U. S. railroads is President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads. Last week, in common with many another railroad bigwig, J. J. Pelley was irked beyond measure. It was not merely that U. S. railroads face their greatest crisis. It was not merely that the Interstate Commerce Commission last fortnight gave the roads a 5.3% freight rate rise instead of the 15% the A.A.R. had requested (TIME, March 21). The cinder that really got in Mr. Pelley's eye was the fact that when President Roosevelt finally held his long-promised railroad conference...
That the decision pleased no one, not even the commission, was speedily apparent. President Roosevelt had no comment, but almost every railroad executive had plenty to say. President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads was most temperate: "We're glad to have what they gave us, but we're disappointed." President Ralph Budd of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy: "This increase, in my opinion, is nowhere near adequate. . . ." Chief Executive Edward Miall Durham Jr. of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific: "Quite unsatisfactory...
...Jeremiah J. Sullivan, who graduated from the Law School in 1930 and who was attorney for the "inside' union in its negotiations with the university Tuesday, decided on Everitt's plea to have nothing more to do with the organization...
Organizer Robert H. Everitt launched a vigorous attack on the "inside" union's conference with Business Manager Durant yesterday for better working conditions. Pointing out that the labor delegation was led by City Councilor Jeremiah J. Sullivan, he asserted that "Cambridge and Harvard are burning up with politics...
...intervening 726 pages are only indirectly Reeves's story. In that instant there leaps into his mind the tormented figure of Jeremiah, the prophet of doom, who in the reign of King Josiah had leaned against a pillar in the Temple and stared at a leather amulet on his wrist as Reeves had stared at his wrist watch. The rest of the story is really Jeremiah's. It follows him back to his lonely childhood outside Jerusalem, through his exile, apostasy, agony, to his final peace. His wife, like Reeves's wife, had died in Egypt. Because...