Word: pelley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dollars to plaster the nation with such new railway slogans as: ALL ABOARD! WE'RE GOING PLACES! And in choosing a man to head A.A.R. and "speak and act for the entire industry in matters of common concern," the Association's 150 member roads, picked John Jeremiah Pelley, a man who is not only ready and able to go places but in his 58 years has already been places...
...first place that John Jeremiah Pelley got to was Anna, Ill., where his father, an Irish immigrant, had settled as a contractor after a stretch in the Confederate Army. Son John hustled baggage in Anna's Illinois Central depot during summer vacations, taught school when he was 18, spent a few months at the University of Illinois in 1899. The summers in the Anna depot destined John Pelley for railroading. Only twice has he remained in one railroad job as long as five years-once as an I. C. superintendent in Fulton, Ky., and once as president...
...Haven not only did John Pelley become one of the most popular figures in U. S. railroading, but he blossomed out as an industrial statesman as well. It was in the summer of 1932 that a New Dealer rang his telephone in New Haven, told him that Candidate Franklin Roosevelt was going to define his position on the railroads a few days hence in Salt Lake City. Mr. Pelley had recently issued a statement about government regulation with which Mr. Roosevelt had found himself in complete accord. Might Mr. Roosevelt quote it in part? John Pelley, a lifelong Republican, amiably...
...A.A.R.'s president in 1934. It did not take him long to establish headquarters on 17th & H Streets. It is full of cheap, golden oak desks and big wall calendars and the unmistakable fumigant which characterizes railroad offices from the Bangor & Aroostook to the Alaska Railroad. President Pelley's own quarters are decorated with an illuminated testimonial from New Haven employes which he prizes highly. "You can always fool the guys above you," he says, "but you can't fool the guys below...
Long trounced at golf by President John J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads have been White House Secretary Stephen Early, Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison, Ohio's onetime Governor James Middleton Cox and Editor Merle Thorpe of Nation's Business. At the Miami-Biltmore course the vacationing losers plotted to hoax the winner. To Golfer Pelley they introduced Paul Runyan, onetime Professional Golfers Association champion, as "Mr. Paul, a young businessman from Muncie, Ind., with a handicap of eight." In the morning round Golfer "Paul" hooked his drives into the rough, flubbed his putts, shot...