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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...
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...
...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...