Word: railroadman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mary Williamson Averell Harriman, 81, philanthropist, relict of Railroadman Edward Henry Harriman (died: 1909) who left her $100,000,000, in Manhattan...
Some Denverites: Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, Shoeman William Lewis Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Assistant Secretary of State James Grafton Rogers, Paul Whiteman, Author Courtney Ryley Cooper, Silverman Simon Guggenheim whose son is named George Denver...
...genial personality made him seem just the right man for a position which carried with it much contact with politicians. Last week Sir Henry's downfall was being discussed in Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver. It was easy for one side to say he was not a good railroadman, that he had wasted his company's money in lavish expenditures on the road and on himself. But it was just as easy for the other side to say that throughout his career Sir Henry had forever been confronted with the difficult task of keeping out of politics...
...week pledged itself to non interference. Whether or not Mr. Hungerford can increase CNR's traffic, decrease its tremendous deficits, will probably be the final answer to the debatable question : Can any government run a railroad? Yet he may not have time to give an answer. For many a railroadman last week felt that Sir Henry's resignation may hurry what seems to be eventual, the unification of Canada's two great railroads whose passenger and freight cars, hotels, express services, and telegraph lines, compete from Montreal to Vancouver...
...meetings with a classbook under his arm. He spent vacations working on the road. His family's direct U. P. holdings are estimated at only 1.63% of the common stock but the Board sought him as chairman for several reasons. The position does not demand a professional railroadman. The chairman is often chosen for his financial and personal prestige. Son Harriman has both in abundance. His duties will not be so arduous that he will have to relinquish any of his other interests although friends last week reflected grimly that, having found the going hard...