Word: callboy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pair tied up the railways. "These two men," the President had rasped-"Mister Whitney and Mister Johnston." Whitney has since forgiven Mr. Truman, and has announced that he will back him for renomination. Johnston is a Republican. He is a plain, blunt man who started his career as a callboy, vaguely resembles John L. Lewis, is publicly crotchety and privately pleasant...
Johnston, onetime callboy, engine wiper, fireman and engineer on the Great Northern, had been a B. of L.E. official 16 years when he became its Grand Chief Engineer (a title he loves to roll on his tongue) in 1925. Besides the title, he also inherited the union's sour financial ventures-notably a bank and a $15,000,000 burst bubble in Florida real estate. His inaugural address: "I am no banker...
White-haired, Illinois-born Railroader Sprague came up the hard way: callboy telegrapher, machinist's apprentice, fireman, etc. After he had gone back to railroading, and had been promoted a few times, he picked up a new hobby: training race horses, particularly has-beens. Year after year his broken-down nags won purses for him (one big grey won 16 out of 20 races, after Sprague bought him for $175, pulled a tooth that had made him "outlaw" when the bit touched...
Elected King of Ak-Sar-Ben ("Nebraska" backwards) at Omaha's fall festival was bald, bulging William Martin Jeffers, 50 years ago a Union Pacific roundhouse callboy, since 1937 Union Pacific's president...