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...SAMUEL PERLMAN...
First business was to elect Young their new chairman - at $1 a year. Next they named Alfred E. Perlman, 51, executive vice president of the Denver & Rio Grande Western, as the Central's new president (TIME, June 7) and chief executive officer.-Take a Chance. Young and Perlman had met for the first time only 20 days before. But Perlman had been carefully scouted much earlier by Thomas J. Deegan, vice president of Alleghany and, as Young's righthand man, director of the campaign for Central proxies. As second in command (under Judge Wilson McCarthy) of the middle...
What will Perlman do with the Central? Disregarding for the moment Young's high-flown proposals, such as the lightweight Train X, roller bearings and refrigerated cars, he says he will first "spend six months getting acquainted Those present: Allan P. Kirby, Young's side, kick and president of Alleghany Corp.; Earl E. T. Smith, New York Stock Exchange member and former husband of a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt; Dr. R. Walter Graham, Baltimore physician; William Landers of Utica, retired Central engineer; D. E. Taylor, president of West India Fruit and Steamship Co. of Norfolk, Va.; Frederick Lewisohn...
...tallying dragged on into this week, Young appeared supremely confident, was already talking about his new president for the Central, hinted that it might be the man he had dinner with the night before the meeting: A. E. Perlman, executive vice president of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad...
Frankfurter was almost airborne with agitation. Shaking his finger at Perlman, he piped: "Sources don't derive from circumstances...