Word: soo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daniel Willard, Baltimore & Ohio, $120,000; Lewis Warrington Baldwin, MOP, $105,167; Leonor Fresnel Loree, Delaware & Hudson, $90,000; Frederick Ely Williamson, New York Central, $80,000; Edward Eugene Loomis, Lehigh, $72,000; Fairfax Harrison, Southern, $67,500; Walter L. Ross, Nickel Plate, $60,000; Clive Talbot Jaffray, the Soo, $45,000; Patrick H. Joyce, Chicago Great Western, $40,500; Morris McDonald, Maine Central...
...book or two under the cab seat. There is good reason for "Uncle Dan" to sympathize with the 500,000 men laid off railroads in the past two years. The business depression of 1883 took him out of his cab, put him to work as a conductor on the Soo. From conductor he started up the long grind of a rail-road operating man's career: trainmaster, assistant superintendent, superintendent...
When a railroad official gets a chance for a better position on another line, not infrequently he takes a subordinate or so along with him. When Frederick Douglass Underwood left the Soo to become general manager of the B. & O. he took Superintendent Willard along as his assistant. That was in 1899. Two years later Mr. Underwood became president of the Erie, asked Mr. Willard to accompany him. "Uncle Dan" went along as general manager. In 1910 he returned East to become president of the road he had left nine years before...
...Magistrate Overton Harris in Harlem Court appealed one Sam Wah, three witnesses?Messrs. Lee Sam. Wing and Soo Lee?a Lawyer and Henry Chang. Chinese Consul. They complained that Irving Moskowitz and Max Rudikoff. respective proprietors of the Algonquin and Columbia Laundries, had displayed posters in their windows which Mr. Wah considered an affront to all Chinese, particularly those who wash clothes...
...directly on livestock. During the past seven years 14,000 Northwestern farmers have borrowed $7,000,000 from it. Its chairman is Clive Talbot Jaffray, who is also head of First Bank Stock Corp. In addition to banking, Mr. Jaffray is president of Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie ("Soo") Ry., subsidiary of the C. P. R. When he attends First Bank Stock Corp. directors' meetings he is joined by five other presidents of Northwestern railroads; Ralph Budd of Great Northern, Charles Donnelly of Northern Pacific, Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & Northwestern, Henry Alexander Scandrrett of the Chicago, Milwaukee...