Railroad Reviver

HENRY K. NORTON '05, jack of innumerable trades and, despite the old saying, master of many, has lately proved himself a success in a new undertaking.

In 1937, unable to meet certain obligations, the New York Susquehanna and Western Railroad filed petition to reorganize. Norton was one of two men chosen to devise a long-range plan that would help the company emerge most quickly from receivership. An attorney by training, Norton's experience with the railroad business consisted mostly of stamping envelopes for the Pullman Co., immediately after his graduation from Dartmouth. However, with the late Walter Kidde, the other trustee in receivership, he worked out an express train-bus service from the railroad terminal to midtown New York which has been primarily responsible for restoring the line to the point where it expects to emerge from receivership this year.

A constant factor in the numerous activities Norton has undertaken since graduation has been his talent for combining administrative ability with the capacity for self-expression. A practising lawyer, an Army officer, immigration commission executive, corporation counsel, bank director and radio executive, he has also belonged to professions in which his wide experience was a valuable adjunct to theory. He has been a college professor, a representative of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in South America, and student and lecturer in the United States, Europe, and China. For almost 15 years he was a journalist, and is the author of several books on international affairs, in which he brings out with success the effect of the impact of American enterprise, especially in South America and China. Back of War, a book analyzing some of the basic causes of war, was published in 1928.