Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...narrow horizons of a small farm; and 3) an early political career in a machine that knew little and cared less for broad-scale statesmanship. Son of a Missouri farmer, he went no farther than high school before setting to work. He was a timekeeper for the Santa Fe Railroad in Kansas City, wrapped papers for the Star, clerked in a bank. Then he went back to the farm until World War I swept him in. A longtime National Guardsman, he went to France a captain, won commendation for his coolness under fire (he once disciplined a panicked company...
...casual account by CBS's John Daly, for four years the net's Presidential announcer, who simply described, a few of the President's personal characteristics as he had known them. NBC's longtime Presidential announcer Carleton D. Smith reminisced the next day. From the railroad station at Warm Springs came difficult, well-handled reports by the Blue's John Barlett, CBS's Frank Gaither. They saw the departure of the President's body. "We notice Mrs. Roosevelt has just been helped from her car," said Gaither, ". . . behind Mrs. Roosevelt and Mr. Early...
...directors of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. ("Katy") feared that there would be wigs on the green at the annual stockholders' meeting in St. Louis last week. Edward N. Claughton, holder of the largest single block of Katy stock (11%), had loudly voiced his dissatisfaction with the way the Katy president, natty, gregarious Matthew S. Sloan, was treating his stockholders...
This astute management of the finances of a once shaky railroad did not appeal to dividend-hungry stockholders like Florida's Claughton. As spokesman for a stockholders' protective committee claiming 40% control of Katy common stock, Claughton cried, "If the Katy can't pay dividends when it is earning good money, then what can stockholders expect after...
...Plane, Train & Auto. "Matt" Sloan, 63, ex-president of the New York Edison Co., commutes by plane between Manhattan and his Southwest railroad. He has traveled over every mile of the 3,293-mile Katy system. On inspection trips he fires a barrage of questions at Katy railmen, once stopped his special train at a lonely station to shake hands with a legless dispatcher...