Word: pelley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roads, got a bill introduced in Congress to prevent the discharge of trainmen and place other restrictions on the consolidations which would prevent savings. Eager to save Coordinator Eastman's work from becoming a complete waste, President Roosevelt wrote two identical letters, one to President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads, the other to Vice Chairman J. A. Phillips of the Railway Labor Executives' Association. Excerpt...
...year ago Howard Shirley Palmer walked in through the accounting office to the presidency of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. when big, bluff John Jeremiah Pelley walked out to become special Washington pleader for the Association of American Railroads. Last week dry, quiet, abstemious President Palmer, whose father is still the Maine Central station agent at East Sumner, Me., dragged himself from a gloomy directors meeting in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal to perform the saddest duty that ever devolves upon a railroad man. He announced that the New Haven could not meet its obligations, was filing...
...bond issue dropped eight points in a single session, and New York, New Haven & Hartford (mileage: 2,072) issues sank five points to new lows for the year, around 25? or 30? on the dollar. New Haven's new president Howard S. Palmer, who succeeded John Jeremiah Pelley last autumn, felt obliged to announce: "We are not contemplating any reorganization at this time...
...Last week the American Hebrew & Jewish Tribune named among others the following as current distributors: William Dudley Pelley of the Silver Shirts of America; Representative Louis T. McFadden from Pennsylvania; the Order of '76; the Friends of New Germany and the Moody Bible Institute...
...statement with a $10,000,000 deal with Oris Paxton Van Sweringen (TIME, April 23). Last week after a trial before Cleveland's Judge Paul Jones, a jury of eight men and four women pronounced Mr. Nutt not guilty. Said he: "My conscience is clear." ¶ When John Jeremiah Pelley went to Washington to head the new Association of American Railroads (TIME, Oct 1), it was a foregone conclusion that his right-hand man, Howard Shirley Palmer, would succeed him as president of New York. New Haven & Hartford. Last week President Palmer, whose father was and is the Maine Central...