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Died. Senora Leonor Llorente Calles. 27, second wife of Mexico's political boss and onetime President. General Plutarco Elias Calles; of a brain tumor; in Mexico City. Last June General Calles took his wife to Boston for a brain operation by famed Dr. Harvey Gushing who operated but told General Calles the tumor was mortal. General Calles' first wife, Natalia Chacon Calles, mother of nine, died in 1927 at Los Angeles whither Mexican law forbade Mexico's President to follow during his administration. The second wife, mother of two, singer, law & dentistry student, whom General Calles married...
...potent football player at University of Pennsylvania in 1893, Indiana-born Sir Henry coached the Vanderbilt University team at $100 a week for his first job, then became a draftsman for Pennsylvania Railroad at $50 a month. He caught the attention of bush-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, then general manager of the road. He was whipped through every department of the Pennsylvania to get a background which would enable him to teach and train employes. In 1911 he was given the task of rehabilitating the Long Island Railroad. With this experience, he left in 1914 for England. He carried...
Other railroad presidents' salaries last March included: General William Wallace Atterbury, Pennsylvania, $135,000; Daniel Willard, Baltimore & Ohio, $120,000; Lewis Warrington Baldwin, MOP, $105,167; Leonor Fresnel Loree, Delaware & Hudson, $90,000; Frederick Ely Williamson, New York Central, $80,000; Edward Eugene Loomis, Lehigh, $72,000; Fairfax Harrison, Southern, $67,500; Walter L. Ross, Nickel Plate, $60,000; Clive Talbot Jaffray, the Soo, $45,000; Patrick H. Joyce, Chicago Great Western, $40,500; Morris McDonald, Maine Central...
General Plutarco Elias Calles, Minister of War and onetime President of Mexico, raced from Mexico City to Manhattan by special train with his second wife, Senora Leonor Llorente Calles, 26, suffering acutely from intercranial pressure induced either by a tumor or meningitis. In Manhattan the party was met by General Calles' son-in-law, Dr. Joseph Jordan Eller...
...first job as cashier in a Pennsylvania Railroad freight office in Toledo. Working for many railroads, he rose rapidly and in 1915 became board chairman of Wabash. In 1924 he became board chairman of Missouri Pacific, was ousted in 1930 by the Brothers Van Sweringen. Close associate of Leonor Fresnel Loree in his plans to build a fifth great eastern trunk line, Railman' Williams put forward a plan of his own in 1929, two years after Mr. Loree was frustrated in his efforts. Partly because of the strong position of Pennsylvania Railroad, the Wabash plans failed. Railman Williams...