Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the long investigation bore its first fruits. Four of the witnesses who had appeared before the grand jury were indicted for perjury. To Miami's astonishment, one of those accused was Mrs. Helen Russell, 55, wife of a railroad engineer and onetime Sunday-school teacher. As vice president of a local "civic association," Mrs. Russell had led agitation against admission of Negroes to Carver Village. According to the grand jury, she had lied under oath when she denied asking Ku Klux Klan assistance in her drive to prevent Negroes from moving into the housing development...
...York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad will run 16 extra coaches a day on the Boston to New York run over the weekend, with no reservations needed...
...screen writer, and his brother Julian, an eye surgeon. The process was licensed by radio's veteran Producer-Writer-Director Arch Oboler, who turned out Bwana Devil, a jungle yarn starring Robert Stack, Barbara Britton and some man-eating lions that almost halt the building of an African railroad...
...Providence, where the old Union Station is one of the city's biggest eyesores, Evening Bulletin Reporters James Doyle and John Quinn made a brash suggestion. A year ago they wrote a kidding column proposing that the New Haven Railroad move the station from the heart of the downtown section by tunneling under State House Hill and re-routing the main-line railroad tracks. Wrote Doyle and Quinn: "We are forced to omit little details [because] our engineering consultant is sweating out a Red Sox fight in the American League and has no time for trifles." The "Doyle-Quinn...
...renaissance-or has had more to do with it-than Laurence Frederick Whittemore, 58, installed last week as president of the New England Council, a sort of super-Chamber of Commerce for the region. Long a New England booster, Whittemore started as an shop worker for the Boston & Maine Railroad, worked up to assistant to the president, and for a year was president of the New York, New Haven & Hartford under irascible old Frederic C. Dumaine...