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...opposed Curley's recent proposed pension system for judges, and the notorious Dog Track Bill of last year. In an attempt to defeat the mayoralty candidates, Curley and Nichols, he proposed the organization of a Fusion movement in Boston, "to save our city from political spollsmen...
Living on a Government pension, Mr. Haskins has concentrated on the art of watching fancy skating, made himself its No. 1 U. S. exponent by traveling to figure skating meets all over the country...
...President read with ripe irony. He paused, grinned, then resumed: "In the Federal courts there are in all 237 life tenure permanent judgeships. Twenty-five of them are now held by judges over 70 years of age and eligible to leave the bench on full pay. Originally no pension or retirement allowance was provided by the Congress. ... In exceptional cases, of course, judges, like other men, retain to an advanced age full mental and physical vigor. Those not so fortunate are often unable to perceive their own infirmities. 'They seem to be tenacious of the appearance of adequacy...
Another attempt to settle the pension problem was made last week over a conference table in an office next to President Pelley's. On one side of the table sat Management in the person of Mr. Pelley, backstopped by such railroad notables as Erie's Charles Eugene Denney, Pennsylvania's Martin Withington Clement, Illinois Central's Downs, Union Pacific's Carl Raymond Gray, Santa Fe's Samuel Thomas Bledsoe, St. Paul's Henry Alexander Scandrett. On the other side of the table sat able, popular Chairman George M. Harrison of the Railway Labor...
...good the boys or the gods would continue to be to U. S. railroading, stocky, optimistic John Pelley cannot say. Ahead of him is not only the pension snarl and the demand for wage increases, but also a battle for a revision of freight rates to give his carriers more revenue. But John Pelley is no worrier. Said he in the worst of hard times: "Get me right. I'm not going to talk bullish. Nothing like that. I can't see myself sitting on a pink cloud right now. But people are overdoing this pessimism." Today, with...