Word: trainman
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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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...