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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...
...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...