Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning, Harry Truman's resolve was strengthened by about 2,000 telegram-30 to 1 in favor of his tough tactics. He called off any further conferences with Brothers Whitney and Johnston, did not even deign to read a letter from them which still sought extra concessions...
Harry Truman could not stand much more of the kind of humiliation he had suffered at the hands of Lewis and the brotherhoods' Alexander Whitney and Alvanley Johnston. The nation's economy could not stand many more such paralyzing strikes. Harry Truman and Congress had let things drift so far that there was nothing to do but drop a legislative atomic bomb...
...gloves were off, and the rough, clenched hands which had once guided a plow through the rich Missouri soil were there for all to see. Having compared the Trainmen's Alexander Whitney and the Engineers' Alvanley Johnston to enemy agents, the President went on to denounce them in the strongest language he could use over the radio. Time & again he referred to "these two men," "Mister Whitney and Mister Johnston,"-with mounting scorn...
...minutes ticked by. In Washington, less than 24 hours after he had ordered Government seizure of the rails, President Truman picked up his telephone. Once before, in the last half hour, he had talked with two men in Cleveland who could prevent the awful smash: Alexander Fell Whitney, the big-jawed, well-tailored president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen (211,000 members) and Alvanley Johnston, the crotchety Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (78,000 members). Now he talked again, and this time-just 26 minutes before the strike deadline-he got a promise. The strike...
Peter Arno, heavyweight cartoonist, denied a gossip-column report that he had been beaten up at a party by another guest (junior-size) of Horsewoman Elizabeth Altemus Whitney's in Warrenton, Va. Actually, said Arno, the little fellow just hit him in the back of the head with a rock. Knocked him cold. (Arno's friends told him about it.) Then somebody else beat up the rock-slinger...