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Because they were the co-authors of the carriers' petition Railroad Presidents John Jeremiah Pelley (New York, New Haven & Hartford), Henry Alexander Scandrett (Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific) and Whitefoord R. Cole (Louisville & Nashville) appeared to repeat orally their written arguments for a rate increase. Mr. Pelley, speaking for all eastern roads, contended that the rate increase was sought only to tide the roads over to better times and avert wage cuts. Spokesman for all Western lines, Mr. Scandrett testified that the carriers asked for a rate increase only as "a last resort" to save their credit structure...
Sirs: In your issue of June 29 there appear on p. 8 what purport to be reproductions of pictures of the Chairmen of the three different groups of railroads . . . Messrs H. A. Scandrett, J. J. Pelley and myself. It so happens that the picture which purports to represent me is one of my friend, Mr. A. C. Needles, President, Norfolk & Western Railway Co. I call your attention to this error not that I think it makes a great deal of difference, or that I think the American Public is particularly interested in my physiognomy, but because of what I understand...
...pipelines. At their Manhattan meeting fortnight ago (TIME, June 22) the carrier executives named three of their colleagues to approach the I. C. C. Representing the Eastern roads was big, breezy John Jeremiah Pelley, who rose from Illinois school-teaching to head New York, New Haven & Hartford. Henry Alexander Scandrett, whose long legal service with the Union Pacific trained him for the presidency of the reorganized Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific, represented the Western and Mountain-Pacific group of roads. Whitefoord R. Cole, president of Louisville & Nashville, represented the Southern roads. An experienced, aggressive trio, Presidents Pelley, Scandrett & Cole...
...June i). Meeting in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore, the executives of all the important carriers of the land appointed a committee to petition the Interstate Commerce Commission within a week for blanket authority to up rates 15%. The committee: New Haven's Pelley, Milwaukee's Scandrett, Louisville & Nashville's Cole...
...Thomas Ament, beauteous relict of Publisher Edward Russell Thomas of the New York morning Telegraph, onetime actress (Turn to the Right, Up in Mabel's Room); and Lieut.-Commander Charles Hann Jr., Manhattan lawyer, onetime Harvard football star, whom she met last October at the wedding of Richard Brown Scandrett Jr., socialite nephew of Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow; secretly, last month; in Towson, Md. From Col. Thomas Mrs. Thomas inherited riches (she sued successfully for her one-third dower-right) and the morning Telegraph, Broadwayish sporting sheet (she dynamically edited for two years). In 1927 she married Col. Lytton Gray...