Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dealing Democrat (but no darling of the party's congressional rank and file), was the first woman to serve on the FCC, was often a center of controversy in her seven years in office. Floridian Mack, a Democrat of calmer persuasion, is former chairman of the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, a current vice president of the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, and an experienced practitioner before...
...midnight, in the middle of the annual three-day Whitsun holiday migration, the first important railroad strike since 1926 hit Great Britain. Seeking better pay, about 70,000 locomotive engineers and firemen left their jobs on the nationalized railroads. Rejecting government appeals to stay on the job, the strikers ground all regular trains to a halt...
...extraordinary powers. Comrade Kaganovich built the famed Moscow subway; he also cast thousands of Moscovites into jail and changed Moscow into a bastion of the party line. Twice he undertook "pacification" measures in the restless Ukraine, and during World War II he reorganized the Soviet Union's dislocated railroad system, introduced the death penalty for failure to make schedules. Kaganovich was the first man to make servile speeches about Stalin's "genius." His sister Roza was Stalin's mistress, possibly his second wife...
...others because it encompasses them. They see all great religions and their founders as essentially one. They concentrate their own efforts not on individual salvation but on the achievement of universal peace. "We are one up on Christianity," says white-haired Leroy loas (pronounced Iowaas), a retired Chicago railroad manager, who serves as secretary general of the international council at Haifa. "Christ never mentioned universal peace in his teachings." Peace-striving Bahais plug for internationalism (the U.N.) and against treaty arrangements "based on force" (NATO). The sect's current head, Shoghi Effendi Rabbani, is in his fifties, lives...
From the moment he took a $1.50-a-day job as a water boy on a gang building a railroad for Anaconda Copper at Butte, Mont., there was never much doubt how Cornelius Francis Kelley would spend his life. Born in the mining country (his father was a mine superintendent), "Con" Kelley had copper in his blood. He went off to study law at the University of Michigan, started specializing in mine cases back in Butte. In a fledgling industry dominated by Irishmen and racked by legal brawls, Kelley quickly made his mark. He went to work for Anaconda, became...