Word: pelley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...died the day before, Fairfax Harrison, onetime president of the Southern Railway, and Engineer Dexter Parshall Cooper, father of Passamaquoddy's tidal-harnessing project. Each was illustrated with a picture. Unfortunately, the purported likeness of Mr. Harrison bore the easily recognizable features of John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads, the picture of Mr. Cooper the features of famed Army engineer Lieut. Colonel Philip Bracken Fleming, now stationed at St. Paul-both very much alive. To all concerned the Times wrote apologies, except the Associated Press, which got a stern complaint for supplying the painful pictures...
...Pelley. As spokesman for U. S. railroads, worst hit of all U. S. industries, President J. J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads declared: "During the first nine months of the year 1937 railway employment was consistently greater than in 1936. During the final three months, however, a reversal . . . brought the average for that period down to 3% below 1936. The decline was an accelerating one, amounting to 32,000 men in November and 73.500 in December...
President John J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads summarized the current gloom of railroaders by further plain speaking: "The margin between income and operating expenses has been so thin that the railroads face a real crisis. Because there is no other way to meet this crisis than to make a general increase in rates and fares, the railroads will ask the commission to expedite consideration of the matter. Facing the railroads today is an increase in operating costs totaling $663,303,000 annually since early in 1933. Of that amount, more than one-half results from new taxes...
...Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler extended his thanks for the colonels' aid during last winter's great Ohio flood, announced that he would break his rule against appointing more colonels by issuing up to ten new commissions in 1938. Named new general of the order was Colonel John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads...
...Union Pacific R. R.'s Old Timers' Club (20 years or more with the U. P.) played host at an impressive golden wedding banquet for President Carl Raymond Gray and Mrs. Gray. Also in attendance were 27 top-flight U. S. railroadmen headed by President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads, and 150 bigwigs from other businesses. Toastmaster at the banquet was bald-pated William Martin Jeffers, 61, U. P. executive vice president, who last week was named by Chairman William Averell Harriman to succeed Mr. Gray on Oct. 1. It is at Carl Gray...