Word: leonor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Fresnel Loree, younger son of Railroader Leonor Fresnel Loree, was elected a director of New York Central R. R. Ever since his smallish Delaware & Hudson bought a 10%, interest in Central (TIME, Feb. 6), Father Loree has been seeking a place at Central's council table. But the I. C. C., wary of interlocking directorates, has taken no action on his application. Impatient to have his $10,000,000 investment represented, he nominated his son, no railroader and hence not subject to the I. C. C. Son Robert Loree is a vice president of Manhattan's Guaranty...
...fortnight of the investigation included: Publisher Paul Block, International Harvester's Alexander Legge, John Francis Hylan, onetime Mayor of New York, Packard's Alvan Macauley, United Mine Workers' John Llewellyn Lewis, Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament, Prudential's Edward Dickinson Duffield, Delaware & Hudson's Leonor Fresnel Loree, Statistician Leonard Porter Ayres, Pundit Walter Lippmann, Chase Bank's Winthrop Williams Aldrich, National Farmers' Union's John Andrew Simpson, Anaconda's Cornelius Francis Kelley, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Pennsylvania R. R.'s William Wallace Atterbury...
...back to the management of Cornelius Vanderbilt. For two generations the House of Morgan, George Fisher Baker's First National Bank and the Vanderbilt sons and grandsons have been at Central's throttle. But early this month a new force entered the Central when 74-year-old Leonor Fresnel Loree, the bush-bearded president of smallish Delaware & Hudson, triumphantly announced that he had bought 10% of Central's stock (TIME, Feb. 6). Last week he was trying to persuade the I. C. C. to let him have an official seat at Central's council table. Central...
...Commission and the "Big Four" railway systems-New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Pennsylvania. They had balked his every effort to form another great Eastern system which would be L. F. Loree's monument. As a railroad man in the gaudy tradition of Vanderbilt, Harriman and Hill, Leonor Loree was known & feared, but Vanderbilt, Harriman and Hill had their big systems and bearded old Mr. Loree had only the smallish Delaware & Hudson and Kansas City Southern. Between them was a great gap. But L. F. Loree was tenacious...
...traffic stalled in snowdrifts; he reconstructed in short order a section of the main line washed out by the Johnstown flood. At 38 he was jumped over a dozen heads to the job of General Manager West of Pittsburgh. When the Pennsylvania bought the dilapidated Baltimore & Ohio, Leonor Loree was sent in as president...