Word: pelley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor's George Harrison suggested that the Government grant the railroads an outright subsidy sufficient to bring their revenues to the normal $800,000,000 a year. This might mean a Government outlay of as much as $465,000,000, would presumably be produced by RFC. John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads nodded in approval. So did his committee of presidents: Frederick Ely Williamson of the New York Central, Ernest Eden Norris of the Southern, Samuel Thomas Bledsoe of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa...
...Association of American Railroads and the Railway Labor Executives Association "decided to wait and see what the President is going to do'' before discussing wage cuts. Said R.L.E.A. President George L. Harrison after the meeting: "They told us how poor they were." Said A.A.R. President J. J. Pelley: "And they told us how poor they were...
Official spokesman for U. S. railroads is President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads. Last week, in common with many another railroad bigwig, J. J. Pelley was irked beyond measure. It was not merely that U. S. railroads face their greatest crisis. It was not merely that the Interstate Commerce Commission last fortnight gave the roads a 5.3% freight rate rise instead of the 15% the A.A.R. had requested (TIME, March 21). The cinder that really got in Mr. Pelley's eye was the fact that when President Roosevelt finally held his long-promised railroad conference...
That the decision pleased no one, not even the commission, was speedily apparent. President Roosevelt had no comment, but almost every railroad executive had plenty to say. President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads was most temperate: "We're glad to have what they gave us, but we're disappointed." President Ralph Budd of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy: "This increase, in my opinion, is nowhere near adequate. . . ." Chief Executive Edward Miall Durham Jr. of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific: "Quite unsatisfactory...
...Last week's mobilisation started off with a luncheon in the Red Lacquer Room of Chicago's Palmer House for 457 such friends of the livestock and meat industry as Chairman William Bishop Warner of the National Association of Manufacturers, Hotelman Ralph Hitz, Railroader John Jeremiah Pelley, Editor Glenn Frank, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick. Convening from all over the nation, the 457 spent 180 minutes eating sirloin beef roast and hearing how the I. A. M. P. was girding up its sirloins to battle against underconsumption...