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...members who still feel that business can serve society best by conducting its own operations effectively. In a biting dissent, Philip Sporn, former president of American Electric Power Co., argued that before business gets any heady notions of saving society it must first improve its own performance. The railroad industry, he said, would serve society best by designing the "modern system of transportation" that so far it "has not even approached"; the New York Telephone Co. should improve its present "third rate" service; and the utilities' main obligation, which they have not met, is to provide "an adequate power...
...lateness can be a covert expression of his aggression. The compulsive clock watcher, on the other hand, has the same desire to rebel; unlike the latecomer, he suppresses it and submits to authority. Freud himself had a particular fear of traveling (known as Reisefieber) and usually showed up at railroad stations too early. The underlying reason, according to his biographer. Analyst Ernest Jones, was that Freud feared losing his home and ultimately his mother's breast-a "panic of starvation, which must have been in its turn a reaction to some infantile greed." Poor Freud! What would he have...
...course, the race Saturday is four miles instead of the usual 2000-meter courses rowed during the regular season, but Yale has shown no indication that it has unusual endurance. The race will go upstream from the railroad bridge over the Thames...
...Randolph began organizing black railway workers into the fledgling Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. After a 12-year battle with railroad management, the Brotherhood won recognition in 1937 when it signed the first contract ever negotiated between a black union and white management...
...only five classmates lost their lives in combat), so perhaps it's not surprising that there are few politicians among its ranks. Still there is Powers Hapgood (d., 1949), who completed Harvard in three years so he could spend his senior year working in iron and coal mines, railroad yards and Chicago slaughter houses. Hapgood went on to become a leader of the United Mine Workers, a defeated Socialist candidate for Governor of Indiana, a major organizer of the CIO and an early member of the NAACP...