Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...position made to order for him last week-Chairman of the Board of Directors. He had been ill for four months and his associates, "desiring to preserve his health and his services for the I. C.," voted Lawrence Aloysius Downs, now head of the Central of Georgia Railroad, to succeed him as president...
...Railroad men have a way of being self-made. Lawrence Downs is thoroughly a part of this tradition. After graduating from Purdue he went to work as a rodman for the I. C., rose steadily through the engineering department. A heavy man, mentally and physically, his particular talent is a blunt, wholehearted affability which endears him to all members of a profession in which this gift is the norm of social intercourse. "Handling men," he has said, "is largely a matter of getting them to like you." Charles Markham has said the same thing; Stuyvesant Fish said...
...Chicago entrance for his Union Pacific trunk line from Council Bluffs. He had bought his way into the Illinois Central which Stuyvesant Fish controlled. Now Mr. Fish was a gentleman who tempered empire building with elegance; he did not believe that a person of quality need handle a railroad less gracefully than he would a cravat. His cigars, acumen, and the atmosphere of success and imported cologne that enveloped his person charmed all the southerners with whom he had occasion to come in contact. But he made one blunder. He quarreled with Mr. Harriman, was fired...
...takes his place among Boise people as if he had not been away most of the time for a decade and a half. When he came this time, a little group met him at the train. There was handshaking under the belltower of Boise's unique Spanish mission railroad station. The prohibition director for Idaho and Montana took charge of the Senator's luggage. In the car of friends he rode down into the sea of trees beneath the green waves of which are the paved streets and houses of Boise. Trees, you know, gave the city...
...broad jump as he had been expected to, with Biesiakiewicz third; the Brooklyn Edison Company took the medley race; one R. Jeha of the Reliance Insurance Company upset all predictions by jumping higher than anybody else. To John Wanamaker's a point score of 69; Pennsylvania Railroad was second with 52; then came Prudential Life, Otis Elevator, New York Stock Exchange. Reliance, Consolidated Gas, Jus Ryte Dental, all perspiring and honorable contenders in the first national industrial track and field games...