Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides dislocating labor, the shock programs disastrously snarled Red China's transport system. In early December 70% of the railroad cars moving in and out of Shanghai were serving the blast furnaces. To provide the city with even the barest minimum of food, railwaymen were driven to perching live hogs or baskets of fowl atop cars already overloaded with ore, pig iron or coal...
...Scary." Times have changed since the days when C.K. helped sweep California government free of railroad domination and armed his reporters to cover the Ku Klux Klan. But the Bees hum every bit as independently now as then. C.K. leaped party lines to endorse Warren Harding in 1920 and old Bob La Follette in 1924. Although Eleanor has been more consistently Democratic at the national level, she makes endorsements on the state ticket with an impartial disregard for party. Last fall she supported Democrat Pat Brown for Governor, but the rest of the Bees' state ballot went to Republicans...
...clubs do not, they say "have the same membership as Porcellian or AD." This is quite true; the social standards for membership in a "Big Five" club at Princeton depend not on the sins of the fathers, but on the sins of the sons. Thus, the son of a railroad worker--if he has the social virtues, the "Cocktail Soul"--can be eagerly sought by Ivy, Colonial and Cap and Grown...
...most dynamic spokesman and "lobbyist" for Washington the nation's troubled railroads is James Miller Symes, 61, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the nation's largest (1958 revenue $844,200,000). Husky (5 ft. 8 in., 180 lbs.), highballing Jim Symes was the driving force behind the Smathers act, which gave the railroads some Government help and a measure of relief from overregulation. But he thinks the railroads can do much more to help themselves - by merging. Last week Jim Symes proclaimed that he still has an urge to merge, deplored the New York Central's scrapping...
FROM his Philadelphia office, Symes shoots down to Washington several times a month in his private railroad car (with cook, steward, three bedrooms, dining room, observation lounge). Nattily dressed and usually puffing a Camel (his male secretary always carries extra packs), Symes tickles legislators with his hearty humor and ready store of anecdotes, sways them with his sharp intelligence, collars Congressmen for private talks, is always ready to testify before a congressional committee...