Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With him on his trip Jim Farley took along his personal and party publicist, Eddie Roddan, and anotherkey man in the national Democratic machine: Treasurer Oliver Adams Quayle Jr. Everywhere he saw and handshook all manner of men & women-railroad workers, col- lege boys, lady Democrats, postal em-ployes-but especially Democratic county chairmen, the machine's roller bearings. He made safe, resounding speeches on salutary topics...
...Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo is busy spying on the shopkeepers. The over-all German standard of living has, however, fallen by at least 20% since the depression. And if extended work hours, the quality of goods and the recent failure to build houses or to replace obsolescent railroad equipment are considered, the decline has been even more precipitous. Money that formerly went into dwellings and the making of machines for producing articles that could be enjoyed is now funneled off by Government command into industrially sterile armaments and showy public monuments. Before the War only 5% of the national...
...outlined a plan, suggesting; the development of new products and industries; the creation of a railroad equipment company financed by the Government, to purchase railroad equipment for leases to roads as needed; a reduction in the guaranteed rate of interest under the Federal Housing Administration program...
Last week these adventures of a railroad empire came to a terse conclusion. Thomas H. Jones, lawyer of the George & Frances Ball Foundation, called Cleveland newsmen by long distance from Muncie and announced: "Messrs. Robert R. Young and Allan P. Kirby and their associates have surrendered to the foundation the 1,200,000 shares of Alleghany Corp. common stock held as collateral for their $2,375,000 note, thus revesting to the foundation ownership of such stock." Muncie's spare, bald, 76-year-old George A. Ball was once again master of the 23,000 miles of right...
Died. Jacob Grant Hollenbeck, 72, assistant passenger traffic manager for the Missouri Pacific Railroad (he had retired 24 hrs. before his death) and father of frail, graceful Musicomedy Hoofer Clifton Webb; in St. Louis...