Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...N.A.A.C.P. has let them down. In other areas, he might want to proceed more vigorously, but clients, because of fear, do not come forward. Marshall does not blame them. He remembers the time when he scroonched down in his B. & O. pants, and the time on the Mississippi railroad platform when he wrapped his constitutional rights in Cellophane...
...RAILROADS will have to spend $20 billion for capital improvements in the next decade to meet growing transportation needs, says Pennsylvania Railroad President James Symes. His forecast for 1965 rail business: 850 billion ton-miles, 53% above 1954's total...
...opposition to the Fifth Amendment privilege, says Williams, has vastly changed over the last 50 years. Far from being praised by the class that is today its most liberal interpreter, the Fifth Amendment was attacked by early 20th century intellectual progressives as an obstacle to convictions in antitrust and railroad rebate cases. Recalls Williams: "In 1908, the U.S. Supreme Court analyzed the privilege at some length and concluded that as a human right it was definitely second class . . . The opinion was written by Justice Moody, an extremely able judge and a staunch 'progressive,' appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt...
...eight Atlantic states staggered out from the most costly floods in U.S. history last week, underwriters reported that insurance will cover only 5 to 10% of losses totaling $1.6 billion. Worst hit were railroads, industrial plants, cities and houses, most of which were massively insured against every disaster but the one that struck. "There just isn't any flood insurance available." lamented a spokesman for the New Haven railroad, whose $10 million losses were among the ravaged area's heaviest...
...Gale Benton Aydelott, 41, was named executive vice president of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (his predecessor was Alfred Perlman, who moved on 18 months ago to become president of Robert R. Young's New York Central). Son of a railroadman and educated at the University of Illinois, Aydelott highballed up through the ranks from laborer to gang foreman and track inspector, became trainmaster in 1943 and general manager last year...