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...yard dash--Won by W. D. Hardwick '36; second, T. W. Willamson '36; third, A. S. Downer '34. Time...
...Walker Downer Hines, onetime Federal director general of railroads, who some wiseacres promptly predicted would be the next Director of the Budget. After Mr. Hines left, the President-elect confided to the Press that he was working on a plan for a national transportation commission in which would be consolidated the Interstate Commerce Commission and Federal regulation of civil aeronautics, shipping and bus & truck traffic. Less concrete were his ideas on a national commission on communications to be built around the Federal Radio and Power Commissions...
John L. Angel of New York City, Melvin L. Barnet of Yonkers, Simon M, Bessie of New York City, Henry C. Brooks of Staten Island, Henry S. Bullard of Manhasset. George Van D. Comfort of New York City, Thomas L. Day of Hewlett, Gerald W. Downer of Poughkeepsie, Kyrie Elkin of Brookyln, Robert E. Von Elten of Brooklyn, Arhur M. Fields. Jr. of New York City, Richard W. Gilder of New York City, William M. Higgins, Jr. of New York City, Henry M. Hoyt of New York City, Andrew Kacmarcyk of Long Island City, Hubert D, Kernan, Jr. of Utica...
...commission to regulate them, arbitrate among them, at the head of the commission to be an all-powerful "tsar." Such a ruler could eliminate duplications of service, reform methods of freight solicitation. The man selected would have to be a national figure, not an officer of any road. Walker Downer Hines, who managed the railroads for one year under Government ownership, was mentioned as a possibility. At present Mr. Hines is eastern counsel for Great Northern Railway, paying particular attention to merger moves. Last week he was on one of his infrequent visits to his country home at Darien, Conn...
...Downer, chief engineer of the Westchester County Park Commission . . . Sc.D...