Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's prize for hotbox rhetoric went to Alexander Fell Whitney, 76-year-old president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Anybody who voted for the Senate's new Taft labor bill, cried he, "broke faith with democracy and followed in the goose step of Naziism...
...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...
...situation full of irony. In 1939, when Inventor Fairchild wanted to float $800,000 worth of financing for his company, bankers insisted that he bring in a practical operating man to help run the plant. A year later, Fairchild himself picked Carl Ward, then general manager of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Corp., brought him in as president and kicked himself upstairs as chairman...
Baker, William Whitney, Jr. '50, Brown, Ernest Burton '50, Everett, Henry Coffin, 3d '49, Galle, Gernnaro Peter '51, Gibson, Roland Jerrold '51, Gilbert, David Hillary '50, Croshong, David Lewis '49, Hamblett, David Coombs '49 (Captain), Kenter, Jerry '51, Lawrence, William Gordon '50 Leeming, Joseph, 3d '50, Lockett, Andrew Moore, 3d, '50, McCormick, Patrick Benjamin Michael '50, Nordlinger, Louis Maurice '50, Ruby, Albert Francis, Jr. '50, Trimble, Donald Edward '50, Walsh, Joseph Michael '51, Ward, Lawrence William '50, Welch, Richard Skeflington '51, White, Richard Manning '51, Williams, George Huntington...
...American Airways. A dedicated Democrat from Arkansas, Cone corralled money even from Dixiecrat & Republican friends, kept up good relations for Pan Am on the Democratic side of the fence. Cone gave $3,000 himself, collected $300,000 and had a hand in bringing the trainmen's A. F. Whitney backing into the Truman roundhouse...