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...Western Hemisphere's biggest railroad* got a new boss last week. To succeed retiring President Robert C. Vaughan, the government-owned Canadian National Railway Co. picked Donald Gordon, 47, deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, whose only direct connection with railroading had been as a passenger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Banker at the Throttle | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

White House Aide Harry Vaughan sized up the situation in Pittsburgh, where he drew more vociferous cheers than his boss during a brief personal appearance: "I did pretty well. I might come back here some time and run for sheriff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Will L. Clayton, 69, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (1945-47) and longtime chairman of the Houston firm of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world's largest cotton brokers; and Susan Vaughan Clayton, sixtyish, who had divorced him last May after 47 years of marriage; on Aug. 6; in Jasper, Alta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Featured work: Vaughan Williams' "London" Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Program Preview, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...episode pointed up the fact that the five-percent investigation was far from being a Teapot Dome. It was much lower-grade stuff-a record of bumbling, chiseling, and shabby wirepulling. Blundering, clownish Harry Vaughan was no credit to his uniform or his position, but nobody had proved him a crook. And with that, the investigating committee adjourned for at least a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Friendship & Nothing More | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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