Word: mountainfolk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Softspoken, friendly, unostentatious, L. & N.'s new president has long been known to railroad's rank & file as "Plain Jim." No kin of famed Empire Builder James Jerome Hill, he was born of poor Tennessee mountainfolk, learned railroad telegraphy at 13, won a $100 scholarship to George Peabody College for Teachers at 15 and graduated three years later as a licensed schoolteacher. He abandoned an academic career to take a $15-a-month job as relief station agent in a tiny town called Bon Air. One day he applied for a better job, was asked if he knew...
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