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...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...
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...