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...profitable C. & 0.; up-from-the-yards John W. Davin, 50, as president of C. & 0. subsidiary New York, Chicago & St. Louis (the "Nickel Plate"), which owns a whopping interest in Wheeling & Lake Erie; and ex-Freight Clerk Robert Jay Bowman, 51, as president of C. & O. subsidiary Pere Marquette...
...Future. As boss of the C. & O.-Nickel Plate-Pere Marquette-Wheeling combination, Bob Young has plenty of plans for the future. First on the list is his No. 1 belief: drastic debt reduction as the best way to keep a railroad on the tracks during the next depression. A man who practices what he preaches, Bob Young has slashed Nickel Plate's debt $25,200,000 in the past two years, hopes to cut it another $10,000,000 next year. Meanwhile he has put most of C. & O.'s debt on a sinking-fund basis, hiked...
...wonder how many people think we've only got to win the war and everything will be hunky-dory? [Many people think this is what Churchill Pere thinks, but Churchill Pere knows he is too old to win both the war and the peace.] You and I are the English-speaking peoples, and the doughboy who came to the dance last night. It will be YOUR responsibility and MINE and HIS to see that the world becomes a fairer . . . place. . . . It won't be enough to go back [home after the war] and let the world go hang...
...their $3,000,000,000 rail and real-estate properties in 1935, Tomlinson and Glassmaker George A. Ball made them needed loans, and Tomlinson became president and chairman of the Van Sweringen holding company, Allegheny Corp., in 1938. He resigned the next year, but retained the chairmanship of the Pere Marquette...
...dusk this knee-pant Trojan wages attrition warfare against the temptations to which his weaker-willed parents are subjected: a sheik-like artist in the case of his portraitgenic mother, and a dove-like matron innocently laying the net for his father. Lily Cahill, la mere; Jay Fassett, le pere, Eddie Nugent, le beau de L'arte;--these and the remainder of the cast are all quite adequate. But it is Monsieur Thomas, L'enfant terrible par excellence, who provides the freshness and snap "Your Loving Son" so badly needs, if it is not to wilt under the brightlights...