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When Jay Gould precipitated the famed "Black Friday" of 1869, Helen Gould was a small tot of a year and a half. It was not until 1913 that she married Railman Finley Johnson Shepard. In the 45 years of her spinsterhood?she was plain, plump, not much concerned with "Society"?she dedicated herself to good works while her brothers and sister went out in the world. She scarcely approved of Sister Anna, who spent much money, married successively Count Boniface ("Boni") de Castellane and the Due de Talleyrand; or smart Brother Frank Jay twice-divorced, who dabbled (and still...
...President's hope was materially strengthened when Daniel Willard, president of Baltimore & Ohio, visited the White House, laid before him all the plans and expectations of the carrier executives. For weeks Mr. Willard has been in constant negotiation with brotherhood leaders and no U. S. railman today knows the temper of U. S. rail labor better than he. To the President he said: "I'm confident an agreement will be reached at the wage conference and I'm hopeful for a solution of the railroads difficulties." He explained that $200,000,000 would come from a wage...
...many railroads, he rose rapidly and in 1915 became board chairman of Wabash. In 1924 he became board chairman of Missouri Pacific, was ousted in 1930 by the Brothers Van Sweringen. Close associate of Leonor Fresnel Loree in his plans to build a fifth great eastern trunk line, Railman' Williams put forward a plan of his own in 1929, two years after Mr. Loree was frustrated in his efforts. Partly because of the strong position of Pennsylvania Railroad, the Wabash plans failed. Railman Williams, a famed breeder of stock and poultry, was exhibiting at the National Dairy Show...
...first move was to send Chinese planes out over the district to make an accurate report of the extent of the damage. His second was to appoint John Earl Baker, U. S. adviser to the Chinese Ministry of Railways, an associate of the National Flood Relief Commission. Railman Baker has already had much experience in flood relief work. The Standard Oil, the British-American Tobacco Co. Ltd., the Bank of China, the Millers' Association offered to cooperate, helped with preliminary plans. From the Vatican Pope Pius XI sent some...
Born. To Alfred Cecil Durban, onetime British newsboy, and Mrs. (Vivienne Maud Huntington) Durban, daughter of the late Manhattan Architect Charles Pratt Huntington, heiress to part of the fortune of the late Railman Collis Potter Huntington; a daughter. 10 lb.; in Logansport, Ind., where the Durbans sought to hide from the public eye. Name: Frances Charlotte...