Word: railman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because he saw a bright future for rail traffic in the "golden triangle" of his part of the Southwest, Railman Couch last week purchased working control of Kansas City Southern Ry. from Paine, Webber & Co. The Manhattan brokers would reveal no details of the deal, but a good guess was that Senator Joe Robinson's good friend Harvey Couch and his associates paid up to $2,250,000 for the stock once held by the Brothers Van Sweringen...
Died, Jay Gould, 45, grandson of Railman Jay Gould, winner of U. S. court tennis championships from 1906 to 1926, 19 times doubles champion (with W. C. Wright, W. H. Tevis Huhn, Joseph Walker Wear); of a throat ailment; in Margaretville...
Adroitly in this sequence Author Ben Hecht and Director Roy Del Ruth let the audience's sympathies waver between the honest railman and the honest officer. Yet when the case is broken by newshawks and the picture moves to its routine end, everyone appears to have forgotten the policeman, last seen in his cell. Good shot: Toler losing his best piece of evidence, in the Police Commissioner's office...
Power-House & Railman. Besides the 14th Century Gothic cathedral?a close copy of Canterbury?Mount Saint Alban plans call for a chapter house, administration building, synod hall, guest house, residences for canons and minor canons There are now schools for girls and boys, a college of preachers, the Bishop's house and garden. All of the 67½-acre wooded hill is to be enclosed by a wall with gates dedicated to the twelve Apostles. Ultimately it will represent perhaps $40,000,000 worth of pious enterprise?what Bishop Freeman calls a "powerhouse of religious energy." Of the more than...
...there was a diocesan convention in Washington. The Cathedral's executive secretary, Edwin N. Lewis, says that on that fateful day, on the far-off New York Central Lines many an engineer and fireman leaned from his cab to ask: "How's our Bishop running?" Then they learned that Railman Freeman was a bishop...