Word: motorman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent a citizen as Motorman Walter P. Chrysler was last autumn fined in Federal Court for failing to have his duck stamp on his hunting license (TIME, Nov. 9). But when Chaplain Phillips revealed the identity of his ignorant companion, Warden King tipped his hat. "I'll take your word for it, sir," said he, and respect fully rowed away...
Sharply warning Mr. Chrysler to make his employes "keep within the law," Judge Chesnut dismissed the baiting charge, fined motorman & employe $10 each for not plugging their guns, $1 each for not pasting on their stamps...
...Motorman Chrysler was not the only distinguished defendant arraigned before Judge Chesnut last week. Among others, Director Joseph B. Weaver of the U. S. Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, was fined $5 for unplugged gun, $1 for unpasted stamp. Enroute from Texas, Albanus Phillips, big, bluff Cambridge Md. soupmaker whose 6,700-acre estate adjoins his good friend Mr. Chrysler's, was expected in court this week to answer a charge of baited shooting...
Last summer the citizens of Kenosha, Wis., gave Charles Williams Nash a public celebration in honor of the 20th anniversary of his removal from Detroit. A farmer until he was 28, a buggy maker in his 40's, the robust, hard-headed motorman stepped down from the presidency of General Motors Corp. at 52 to make his own car under his own name. In the two decades since he moved to Kenosha, his Nash Motors Co. has made more than 1,100,000 cars, paid more than $110,000,000 in dividends...
Four years ago, hoping to spend less time at his old pine desk in his Kenosha office, more time in his Lakeside mansion, Motorman Nash retired to the chairmanship of his rich little company, naming his general manager as president and presumptive successor. Not long ago, however, Mr. Nash regretfully announced President Earl Hansen McCarty's resignation. At 72 thrifty Mr. Nash again had the job of finding an eventual chief executive. Last week he found his man - George Walter Mason, 45, president-chairman of Detroit's Kelvinator Corp...