Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Desai's orders, police arrested 435 Communist, Socialist and United Maharashtra Party leaders. The Communists had prepared for this eventuality, too. Secretly trained alternates swiftly swung into action. At their direction, hundreds of thousands of Maharashtrian workers dropped their work and swarmed out of dockyards, textile mills and railroad shops into the streets, shouting "Death to Nehru!" The rioters blocked streets with boulders and gasoline drums, tore up lampposts, ripped down fences. They smashed statues of Mahatma Gandhi (a Gujarati himself), burned Desai in effigy, flourished pictures of Nehru hung with old shoes as a gesture of despisal. Mobs...
...Absolute baloney!" roared rambunctious Patrick Benedict McGinnis last week to a report that he was leaving the presidency of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. Less than five hours later, McGinnis ate his baloney, said that he would quit his $75,000-a-year job because a "splinter group" of New Haven directors did not like the way he was running the railroad...
Instead, the New Haven board picked Boston Lawyer George Alpert, 57 (at $50,000 a year). No railroad man, Alpert had helped McGinnis win his 1954 proxy fight for control of the New Haven, became a director, has been studying ways to improve the road. He plans to hire an operating boss, said he would buy "a large number" of new diesel locomotives, boost maintenance outlays $3,000,000 in 1956, and run trains on time again. Said he: "Until proper service is accorded to the public, the investors are not entitled to a return on their investment...
Various alumni are serving as hosts during the trip, including airplane manufacturer Robert Gross '19, railroad president Frederic B. Whitman '19, and department store executive Stanley Marcus...
...returned to Ohio State, where he graduated as top man in his law school class. In 1949 he became administrative assistant to Ohio's Senator John Bricker, later moved on to become assistant to Deputy Attorney General William P. Rogers. Bricker, whose law firm represents the Pennsylvania Railroad, sponsored Minor for the $15,000-a-year ICC post, but according to Rogers, "Anybody who thinks he could be persuaded by special pleading just doesn't know Bob Minor." Minor, who classifies himself "a Theodore Roosevelt Republican," says: "I'll be so completely unbiased that...