Word: pelley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wind blasted the overhead cables from the pantographs of the New York, New Haven & Hartford trains. Service between Boston and New York was from one to 14 hr. late. The New Haven's stranded passengers were no worse off than President John Jeremiah Pelley, marooned in his office car at Devon, Conn. With him was a party of railway officials who had been attending a conference in Boston. After waiting four hours for the line to clear to New York, President Pelley & friends turned back to New Haven...
...railroads, where the division between operating and financial management is sharp, the president is almost always an oldtime railroad man?viz. Pelley, Baldwin, Williamson, Budd. Storey. Rail chairmen are usually bankers or lawyers. Robert S. Lovett of the U.P. was its counsel for five years. Financier Harold Stirling Vanderbilt heads the C. & N. W. as chairman, just as Financier Arthur Curtiss James heads Western Pacific...
...climb from one major company to another. Within a big system there sometimes is a definite succession: In the case of Illinois Central the president is usually trained in the presidency of subsidiary Central of Georgia, although this was not true of the last Georgia Central president, John Jeremiah Pelley, who became head of New York, New Haven & Hartford...
Because they were the co-authors of the carriers' petition Railroad Presidents John Jeremiah Pelley (New York, New Haven & Hartford), Henry Alexander Scandrett (Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific) and Whitefoord R. Cole (Louisville & Nashville) appeared to repeat orally their written arguments for a rate increase. Mr. Pelley, speaking for all eastern roads, contended that the rate increase was sought only to tide the roads over to better times and avert wage cuts. Spokesman for all Western lines, Mr. Scandrett testified that the carriers asked for a rate increase only as "a last resort" to save their credit structure...
Sirs: In your issue of June 29 there appear on p. 8 what purport to be reproductions of pictures of the Chairmen of the three different groups of railroads . . . Messrs H. A. Scandrett, J. J. Pelley and myself. It so happens that the picture which purports to represent me is one of my friend, Mr. A. C. Needles, President, Norfolk & Western Railway Co. I call your attention to this error not that I think it makes a great deal of difference, or that I think the American Public is particularly interested in my physiognomy, but because of what I understand...