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...went to South Side High School in Rockville Centre, and then, rather than go to college, which his mother wanted him to do, went south to look for a job. He got one in Washington working on the street railway tracks. From there he went to New Orleans, found...
Harvard Club of Philadelphia, C. Walten Randall, Jr. '36, 2301 Packard Building, 15th and Chestnut sts,; Harvard Club of Rochester, Treadwell Ruml '39, 1927 Sibley Tower Building; Harvard Club of St. Louis, C. Ford Morrill '34, 1601 Railway Exchange Building...
Campaign. In Petersfield, England, Commuter Raymond Francis Baird paid a $42 fine for pulling the emergency-stop cord on a 60-m.p.h. train, asserted: "I have written to the railway ... I will pull all trains up when they are going too fast...
Burton, a graduate of St. John's College in Oxford, is preparing for a career as an educator. During the war, he served as a commissioned officer with the British Royal Artillery. Captured in the fall of Singapore, he worked on the Siam-Burma railway and helped to run a camp library and book repair shop while a prissier of the Japanese. After his repatriation in 1945 he wrote a book about his war experiences entitled "In the Shadow...
Many, however, were already fleeing. On a train from Tientsin to Peiping, I noticed a freight train headed the other way toward the port, bearing three shiny new automobiles. A young, black-uniformed railway guard watched the cars pass. "Yu-chien-ti tu pao" (Have-money people all run), he observed...