Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last time Alexander Fell Whitney was heard of, John Lewis nominated him to head up U. S. Labor when & if C. I. O. and A. F. of L. reunite. Last week in Cleveland able, white-topped Mr. Whitney showed how he runs his own Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen...
...sessions of rich, potent B. R. T.'s quadrennial convention were closed to outsiders including the press. President Whitney forbade the 975 delegates to talk out of meeting, could & would oust any who disobeyed. The few who might have been inclined to do so remembered what happened to two uppity brothers in 1935: Brother Whitney, who is one of Cleveland's leading citizens, had police lock up the pair for the duration of the convention...
What happened last week was unique in recent Brotherhood history. To the astonishment and official indignation of the convention Cleveland newspapers published news which Alexander Whitney did not consider fit to print. They got it from Secretary-Treasurer George W. Anderson. He published a pamphlet charging that in the eleven years since President Whitney took office, B.R.T. had paid in salaries $995,542.74 more than in the ten preceding years. President Whitney's friend, T. B. Eilers, who is in charge of union insurance sales to members, was shown to have collected $429,288 "'in commissions" and expenses...
...until two hours after the hurdles and standards had been stowed away, however, that the outcome of the meet was decided as officials clustered around a movie projector in Payne Whitney Gym and watched pictures of the finish of the 440-yard relay...
...Johnstown streaked farther away from the field at every pole, breezed under the wire in a common gallop, with ears cocked as if wondering what had happened to the rest of the gang. Six lengths behind was W. L. Brann's Challedon, one length in front of Jock Whitney's Heather Broom. El Chico, on whom some million dollars were probably wagered in winter books, finished out of the money...