Word: railroadman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor. Commissioner Mahaffie also knows that many a railroadman hoped that the 15% rate increase would not be granted, but that by public appeal the nation and its legislators would be awakened to the carriers' grievous condition. If it were shown that rates could not be upped, that costs could not be reduced, then the public might realize that only one remedy remained: wage reduction. Ex Parte 103 was to many an official less a plea than a strategem...
...Author. Like William Shakespeare, Dashiell Hammett has little Latin and less Greek, abandoned formal education in his first year of high school to be: a messenger boy. clerk in an advertising office, in a broker's office, timekeeper in a machine shop, stevedore, railroadman. But his chief job, at which he worked both before and after the War, was as a Pinkerton detective. He says: "I was a pretty good sleuth, but possibly a bit over-rated because of the plausibility with which I could explain away my failures." During the War, Hammett acquired a sergeantcy and tuberculosis, has lost...