Word: trainman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mattered not to Trainman Whitney that the new bill was milder-in 27 spots -than Taft-Hartley; Whitney wanted his boys to think that it was really worse. "If this vicious proposal should ever become law," he told his union in its weekly newspaper, "we shall be only one step from Adolf Hitler's form of government...
...future, the Sunday supplement will vary its picture-story routine with articles aimed to please all 21 of the publishers who buy it. "We've found that human interest stories of ordinary people do a swell job of selling America to the Americans," says Motley. "We take a trainman, or a milkman. Show how he lives, what he eats, where he works, his hobbies. It's not heavy. But by & large it shows that people like their homes, their jobs, the companies they work for. We're doing it the easy way. We tell...
Lady from New York. In Sapulpa. Okla. they never thought of giving a musical entertainment without "that little Hutt girl." Texas-born daughter of a trainman on the Frisco line. Frances Hutt was not only pretty and a gifted singer; she was also smart enough to be high school valedictorian. With $400, proceeds from a Kiwanis concert, and a railroad pass from her father, she set out for New York to study singing. Through her teacher she met a promising baritone named Thomas E. Dewey. After a tour in George White's Scandals, Frances married Tom Dewey...
...rubber tsar, veteran trainman William Martin Jeffers, 66-year-old president of Union Pacific...