Word: railman
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...better next time." Nixon visibly paled, while sandwiched among the press corps, Tuck was laughing at the stunt he had improvised. One day Nixon was in the middle of a whistle-stop speech on his campaign train when it suddenly pulled out of the station. Tuck, donning a railman's cap, had signaled the engineer to start...
...most celebrated political prankster is Dick Tuck, a longtime California Democratic politician who has been unusually quiet this year. During Richard Nixon's 1962 campaign for Governor of California, Tuck donned a railman's cap and signaled the engineer of a Nixon train to pull out. Nixon, speaking at the rear, was in mid-sentence as he saw his crowd suddenly begin to recede. Tuck also filled some of Nixon's Chinese fortune cookies during the 1960 presidential campaign with slips saying "Kennedy will...
...Awakening. Such was the direction of the road when a veteran Canadian Pacific railman named Norris...
...Week ¶William N. Deramus III, 41, resigned as president of the Chicago Great Western Railway Co. to become president of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, succeeding Donald V. Fraser, 60, who will become board chairman. Deramus, in turn, will be succeeded at Chicago Great Western by Veteran Railman E. T. Reidy, 53. Member of an old railroading family, big, brawny Bill Deramus went to work for the Wabash Railroad in St. Louis after the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School, ran a railroad in Burma for the Army during World War II, became the youngest president...
...average 51-hour week, are spread so thin that there is no one to operate more trains. With rail wages as low as they are and the skills needed for many of the jobs as high, there is small hope of making these two ends meet. Many a railman is convinced that the wisest thing to do is to furlough railroaders from the Army. Unless that happens, the railroads are keeping their fingers crossed. At best, they expect the present squeeze on civilians to last until next spring. At worst, they wonder if the wire-taut rail system will stand...