Word: trainman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Messrs. Green & Lewis be barred from any office, reserving the presidency for a railway brother like Trainman A. F. Whitney or Engineman David Brown Robertson...
...Labor. White-topped, lively Mr. Whitney runs his rich Brotherhood with iron hand, vehemently opposes A. F. of L.'s proposed Wagner Act amendments, has no great love for David Robertson whom John Lewis also suggested for the biggest job U. S. Labor could offer. For fun Trainman Whitney keeps deer, rabbits, pigeons, a raccoon, lovebirds, canaries and pheasants, reads Tennyson, deluges the press with polished expositions of his views. Last week in Cleveland he agreed with C. I. 0. that jurisdictional rows should be settled after reunion, said he might "go along" with John Lewis' Congress...
...hard times: "Get me right. I'm not going to talk bullish. Nothing like that. I can't see myself sitting on a pink cloud right now. But people are overdoing this pessimism." Today, with the pink cloud at least in sight. John Pelley, like a spry trainman who runs ahead to see that all is clear, is giving the pink cloud the highball...
...requested 34?. "According to the new ruling the fare should be. 23? But I'm willing to pay you 25?. Do you want it?" Flabbergasted, the conductor argued weakly, gave in as the other passengers began cheering Commuter Abelson. Taking his name and address, the red-faced trainman scuttled away after remarking: "You'll hear from our legal department...
Hearing cheers that greeted Herbert Hoover's arrival at Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan, a woman pushed through the crowd to a trainman, asked: "Who is that...