Word: rea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Rea, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad system, will retire in 1925 at the age of 70. His probable successor is W. W. Atterbury, Vice President, in charge of operation...
...Samuel Rea began as a clerk in a country store. At 16 he went railroading, and 31 found him, mature, assistant engineer in the construction of chain suspension bridges over the Monongahela at Pittsburgh. Finally, as head of the 12,000-mile system employing 250,000 men, he became one of the three or four dominating powers in American transportation. He is considered largely responsible for many features of the Esch-Cummins Transportation Act, whereby the roads were returned to private control...
...September morning, 68 years ago, Samuel Rea was born in the town of Hollidaysburg, Pa. On an October morning, last week, Mr. Rea called at the White House and was given the benefit of President Coolidge's first expression of opinion on the railroad situation. Of the intervening years Mr. Rea has spent 50 in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad-as railway engineer, as fourth, third, second, first and plain Vice President, and during the last ten years as President of the Company. The man whom Mr. Coolidge chose for his expression of policy is known, even among...
Others: Colyumists Adams and Broun, Archbishop Hayes, Rabbi Wise, Bishop Manning, Attorneys Cravath and Elkins, Shipowner Franklin, Railroader Rea, Producers Cohan and Woods...
...Railroad Board declared in a statement: " The position of the Pennsylvania System in this matter is devoid of intrinsic merit, violative of the will of Congress and destructive of the rights of the employees." President Rea took " specific exception" to these charges. He maintained that the Board's decision invaded the constitutional and legal rights of his Company, that the Company was on good terms with its employees, and that " the only real discordant note is that being sounded by the Labor Board...