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Elected. John Jeremiah Pelley of Savannah, Ga., president of the Central of Georgia Railway; to be president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R.; succeeding the late Edward Jones Pearson...
Concerts by Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony have been dull this season. Conductor Willem Mengelberg seemed sleepy. The aging Walter Damrosch was uninspired. Then, because Sir Thomas Beecham was unable to come, because Toscanini was late, there followed a string of substitute conductors - Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Fritz Reiner, Arthur Honegger, Hans Lange, Bernardino Molinari. The results were adequate but not memorable. Yet the houses were sold-out. Subscribers had bought in advance for the entire season so that they should by no sorry slip miss Toscanini...
...back and forth between the Messrs. Mortimer and Pell since 1914 and won last fortnight by Mr. Pell at Tuxedo does not, as reported by TIME last week, symbolize the amateur championship but is comparable to the gold mashie played for annually on the private golf links of the late T. Suffern Tailer at Newport...
Last week's alteration concerned the New York, New Haven & Hartford, which has been operating without a president since the resignation (Nov. 27, 1928) and death (Dec. 7, 1928) of the late Edward J. Pearson.* To the New Haven presidency went John Jeremiah Pelley, from the presidency of the Central of Georgia Railway...
...versatile organizer. He left his Niagara Falls law office to serve in the New York State Legislature. He organized the Buffalo & Niagara Falls Railway. He organized the Electric City Bank, then went to the Pacific Coast and organized the North Coast R. R. An even more famed organizer, the late great Harriman, offered him a job, but, "No," said he, "I don't care much for railroads." Back to New York State he went. He had decided that Albany had no hotel worthy of the State capital. He built the Ten Eyck. Later, his second hotel - the Onondaga, Syracuse...