Word: pelley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without honor, year-end forecasts by bank presidents and industrialists receive-and often merit-sober public consideration. In the U. S. the contrary is so true that last week hardly a bigwig bothered to sound off as 1939 arrived. The few that did-Tom Girdler, Alvan Macauley, J. J. Pelley, Jacob Ruppert-were qualifiedly optimistic. Only Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines Corp. pulled out all the stops, issued an "inspirational" statement on practically every phase of U. S. life. Said he, among other things: "Crime must be reduced...
This week, apparently to push it along, Mr. Roosevelt conferred with the two rival commanders - Chairman George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association and President John J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads...
When President J. J. Pelley of the American Association of Railroads reluctantly indicated that in this event the roads might be obliged to negotiate for a pay cut through the mechanism provided by the National Mediation Board, Labor spokesmen cracked back that the unions "would stop at nothing short of a nationwide strike" to maintain their present wage scale. As George Harrison well knows, the Railway Labor Act's detailed procedure of negotiating wages takes months & months. And even President Roosevelt admits the roads cannot wait long for financial aid. Said he fortnight ago in passing along the railroad...
Emerging from the White House, where he was summoned three times last week to exchange ideas with Franklin Roosevelt on the railroad crisis, President John J. Pelley of the American Association of Railroads remarked: "I found the President very sympathetic with our situation and anxious to do anything he can consistently to help...
...Congress. Possibly piqued by Congressional balking of his Reorganization Bill (see p. 16), possibly too baffled by the railroad problem to have a solution, the President contented himself with sending along the Splawn report together with the comments of such advisers as Jesse Jones, Henry Morgenthau, J. J. Pelley, William O. Douglas, most of whom gave it less than complete approval. As his own comment, the President took occasion to call certain functions of the Interstate Commerce Commission "in all probability unconstitutional," to repeat his opposition to Government ownership of the roads, to agree that from a long-range point...