Word: spokesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think it's a Yale plot," the Cambridge spokesman said. "For years Andover men have comprised the largest contingent in the Freshman class at Yale, but recently the trend has changed so that nearly as many Andover men are going to Harvard as to Yale. These transfers are Andover men, and we have decided that this stunt was all planned out last year by Yale authorities trying to lure Harvard men to Yale and bolster that rapidly declining institution...
...Uncle Dan") Willard of Baltimore & Ohio. Over his line Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover rode on most of their trips and often in "Uncle Dan's" own private car. The White House door was constantly swinging open to him for Presidential conferences on railroad problems. His name, as spokesman for his industry, could be found on practically every list of tycoons picked by the President to do this or that public job. The country had every reason to believe that grey-haired old Dan Willard, with the confidence of Labor and his mildly liberal views, was the stanchest pillar...
...Union Pacific and Federal Transportation Coordinator Eastman. Lawyer-Lobbyist Robert Virgil Fletcher of the Association of Railway Executives has so far failed to draw any aces from the New Deal for his employers. Therefore the carriers of the U. S. have long felt the need for a fulltime Washington spokesman, a man of power, prestige and personality who would be authorized to strike and strike hard in their behalf. Last week in Chicago's Blackstone Hotel they picked their new leader-John Jeremiah Pelley, 56, president of New York, New Haven & Hartford...
Before the railroads could name their spokesman, however, they had to create a job for him. The two leading trade bodies were the American Railway Association, which compiles the weekly figures on car loadings, and the Association of Railway Executives, which represents railroad management. Neither association was strong enough to hold the proud & jealous rail systems of the country together on long-range policies. So last week the 150 Class I railroads voted to merge the two associations as the Association of American Railroads. Its platform...
...least $1,000,000 worth of yachts, the Fisher Brothers lunch together daily. No outsider is ever admitted to these secret family councils. Last week, however, a break occurred in what, except for their brotherhood, is their most conspicuous bond-General Motors. Fred, the eldest, the richest, and the spokesman for the other six Fishers, and Charles suddenly resigned from GM to spend more time on their personal business. That left four Fishers to build the bodies and watch over the vast Fisher investment in the biggest U. S. motor company. (Brother Howard, 34, baby of the family, works...