Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue was the loss by Chicago's ancient Parmelee Transportation Co. of its 102-year-old franchise to haul passengers and baggage between the city's eight painfully scattered railroad stations. Last spring the railroads, considering Parmelee inefficient and overpriced, threw open bidding on a new five-year contract. Successful low bidder was Railroad Transfer Service, Inc., headed by tempestuous John Keeshin, trucking magnate and longtime, if unlikely, friend of quiet Hugh Cross...
...noted soon after its inception in 1887 that in Washington, the capital city, "white and colored children are educated in separate schools. Congress votes public moneys to separate charities . . . Trades unions . . . maintain and march in separate organizations." Accordingly, the ICC defined its 1887 segregation policy for railroads to "aim at a result most likely to conduce to peace and order and to preserve the self-respect and dignity of citizenship of a common country." Coming up to 1955, the ICC last week quoted the recent rulings of the Supreme Court against segregation on interstate railroad sleeping and dining cars...
Segregation of Negro interstate railroad and bus passengers must be ended, effective Jan. 10, the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled last week...
From that day forth, Negroes who pay for the same interstate accommodation as whites must get the same accommodation as whites; they must also be permitted to use the same railroad waiting rooms and washrooms as whites. Said the ICC: "The disadvantage to a traveler who is assigned accommodations or facilities so designated as to imply his inherent inferiority solely because of his race must be regarded under present conditions as unreasonable. Also, he is entitled to be free of annoyances, some petty and some substantial, which almost inevitably accompany segregation, even though the rail carriers . . . sincerely try to provide...
FREDERIC C. DUMAINE JR. and associates have given up hope of winning back control of the New Haven railroad, have sold their 131,000 shares of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad preferred stock to a group friendly to Patrick...