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...every murmur an angry shout, the labor executives' committee and the railway executives adjourned from the smoky ballroom to Room No. 13. Conspicuously not present at the knee-to-knee parley was fatherly President Daniel ("Uncle Dan") Willard of the B. & 0. who, with amiable President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, patched together the existing wage arrangement. And although present, President Robertson was no longer the voice of railway labor. New leaders were General Manager William Francis Thiehoff of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, onetime section laborer, and President Alexander Fell Whitney of the Brotherhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: From Room No. 13 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

Bertram Cutler, agent & representative of the John Davison Rockefellers, was elected a director of Radio Corp., succeeding Westinghouse's Andrew Wells Robertson. Rockefeller Center, Inc. owns 100,000 preferred A shares of Radio, received in return for reducing the amount of space in Radio's lease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Dec. 26, 1932 | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...second group of sixteen men follows: R. P. Curtis, Jr., E. W. Dalton, F. E. Denny, O. H. Emmons, P. E. Fox, F. M. Foley, F. G. Jewett, Jr., R. D. Kernan, A. B. McFadden, John Page, Lewis Perry, Jr., Edward Rawson, G. F. Robertson, P. C. Staples, Jr., A. K. Ware, P. L. Wilson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HODDER MAKES INITIAL FRESHMAN HOCKEY CUT | 12/17/1932 | See Source »

...mistress (Thelma Todd), practicing prostitution, boxing the ears of her second fiancé (Anthony Jewitt) and punching a horse in the stomach. The only explanation for her behavior lies in the fact that she is not, as she supposes, the daughter of a Texas railroad millionaire (Willard Robertson) but the bastard offspring of his wife (Estelle Taylor) and a yodeling Indian chief named Ronasa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...pound class, Leslie Williams '33 in the 125-pound class, R. R. Borden '35 in the 135-pound class, R. R. McGoodwin '34 in the 145-pound class, Herman Gross '33 in the 155-pound class, K. N. Simonian '34 in the 165-pound class, and A. D. Robertson '34 in the 175-pound class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOXING SQUAD BEGINS PRACTICE WITH THREE LETTER MEN RETURNING | 11/30/1932 | See Source »

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