Word: trainman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worrying about how they would pay for their new baby, expected any day. Ronald Gandee, 24-year-old Coast Guardsman, shouted that at last he could marry his sweetheart Frances Longley. Tony Roberts, 26, milker; Warren Wosser, 28, jobless fireman; Eddie Souza, 24. substitute fireman and James Nettro, 26. trainman, all gloated over hauls of ten to 75 lb. and dreamed their dreams...
...arms and bled to death. Three Jerseymen were marooned all night in their car near Harmony. Next morning they set out for help. One fell exhausted. When his companions returned with help he was frozen stiff. The Long Island R.R.'s one rotary snowplow was derailed, crushing a trainman to death. A rotoetcher of the New York Times froze to death in his stalled car before an automobile, a police emergency car and an ambulance could reach...
Very early New Year's morning Charles P. Ruby, railroad trainman, arose in his Washington home. He hurried to the gates of the White House. There, before dawn, he sat down on a box, began a long wait. Later another man, Arthur Demars, jobless insurance agent, came along, stood up behind Ruby. It was very cold. A White House guard came and asked what they were doing...
When James John Davis wanted to resign last year, President Hoover already had a successor in mind-his good friend William Nuckles Doak, the scowling, big-featured editor of The Railway Trainman, for years Washington lobbyist of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Mr. Doak worked with Mr. Hoover in Food Administration days. He came up from shunting boxcars in the hardboiled coal town of Bluefield, W. Va. Therefore he could command respect from workingmen. As a Brotherhood official he had functioned in the legislative field (helping, among other things, to draft the Watson-Parker Railroad Labor...
Died. Oliver Curtis Perry, 64, oldtime trainrobber; at the Dannemora State Hospital, near Plattsburg, N. Y. where he had been for 27 years. In 1891 Perry, a trainman of the New York Central, longed for luxurious living. One night he sawed his way into his train's money car, overpowered the guard, and while the train was still in motion crawled back out through the hole with enough loot for six riotous months in the West. A year later, broke and back for more, he clung by a rope-ladder to the same train as it sped through the night...