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That the decision pleased no one, not even the commission, was speedily apparent. President Roosevelt had no comment, but almost every railroad executive had plenty to say. President John Jeremiah Pelley of the Association of American Railroads was most temperate: "We're glad to have what they gave us, but we're disappointed." President Ralph Budd of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy: "This increase, in my opinion, is nowhere near adequate. . . ." Chief Executive Edward Miall Durham Jr. of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific: "Quite unsatisfactory...
...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...
...Last week's mobilisation started off with a luncheon in the Red Lacquer Room of Chicago's Palmer House for 457 such friends of the livestock and meat industry as Chairman William Bishop Warner of the National Association of Manufacturers, Hotelman Ralph Hitz, Railroader John Jeremiah Pelley, Editor Glenn Frank, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick. Convening from all over the nation, the 457 spent 180 minutes eating sirloin beef roast and hearing how the I. A. M. P. was girding up its sirloins to battle against underconsumption...
...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...