Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven not only did John Pelley become one of the most popular figures in U. S. railroading, but he blossomed out as an industrial statesman as well. It was in the summer of 1932 that a New Dealer rang his telephone in New Haven, told him that Candidate Franklin Roosevelt was going to define his position on the railroads a few days hence in Salt Lake City. Mr. Pelley had recently issued a statement about government regulation with which Mr. Roosevelt had found himself in complete accord. Might Mr. Roosevelt quote it in part? John Pelley, a lifelong Republican, amiably...
John Pelley's two biggest functions, however, are fronting for the roads before Congress and Labor. In the first capacity he is ably assisted by Robert Virgil Fletcher, a courtly onetime Mississippi judge whose dignity and patience have made him popular with Congressional committees. Now 67, sharp of wit, lucid in explanation, Lawyer-Lobbyist Fletcher heads A.A.R.'s legal department, likes to make speeches like the one he gave last week in St. Paul against government regulation and government ownership. Currently A.A.R. is lobbying, with the support of Labor, for the repeal of the "long-&-short haul" clause...
...notables as Erie's Charles Eugene Denney, Pennsylvania's Martin Withington Clement, Illinois Central's Downs, Union Pacific's Carl Raymond Gray, Santa Fe's Samuel Thomas Bledsoe, St. Paul's Henry Alexander Scandrett. On the other side of the table sat able, popular Chairman George M. Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association supported by such labor leaders as Vice President G. E. Joselyn of the Order of Railway Telegraphers, President James A. Phillips of the Order of Railway Conductors and Captain James J. Delaney of the Masters, Mates & Pilots of America...
...fence and given Gauguin's painting nearly as high marks as he gave it himself, but few champions have been found for Gauguin's behavior as a man. Author Somerset Maugham's fictional version of Gauguin's life (The Moon and Sixpence) is still the popular...
...year-old Tom Paine landed in America in November 1774 having failed in England as staymaker, sailor, schoolmaster, excise officer, husband, no man could have predicted the extent of the fame or the abuse that awaited him. Ranked by his contemporaries with Washington and Jefferson, he lived to see popular opinion of himself summed up by his onetime enemy, Journalist William Cobbett: "Men will learn to express all that is base, malignant, treacherous, unnatural, and blasphemous by one single monosyllable-Paine." Mothers threatened their young, "If you're not good. Tom Paine will get you." A century later Theodore...