April, 1954 - Milwaukee Road Archive
April, 1954 - Milwaukee Road Archive
April, 1954 - Milwaukee Road Archive
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M. L. Bluhm RetireSi Board Elects C. L. Taylor<br />
WHEN The <strong>Milwaukee</strong> <strong>Road</strong> said farewell<br />
at the end of March to M. 1.<br />
Bluhm, vice president and general counsel,<br />
it witnessed the closing of a career<br />
which has been of particular significance<br />
to this railroad. In his 32 years of service<br />
Mr. Bluhm had an opportunity to engage<br />
actively in all of the principal<br />
branches of railroad law, and consequently<br />
was in a position to make a<br />
great contribution to the progress of the<br />
railroad.<br />
In leaving, however, he is succeeded<br />
by Carson 1. Taylor, who has been general<br />
solicitor and who himself has a<br />
brilliant record of service with the Mil.<br />
waukee. Succeeaing Mr. Taylor as general<br />
solicitor, in turn, is a welcome newcomer<br />
to The <strong>Milwaukee</strong> <strong>Road</strong>, William<br />
J. Quinn, formerly with the Soo Line<br />
as vice president and general counsel.<br />
The board of directors' action in electing<br />
Mr. Taylor and Mr. Quinn was taken<br />
at the meeting on Mar. 10.<br />
Mr. Bluhm Voices a<br />
Retirement Philosophy<br />
At a farewell luncheon given in Mr.<br />
Bluhm's honor in Chicago on Mar. 18<br />
and attended by all of the principal officers<br />
of the railroad, he voiced a retirement<br />
philosophy reflecting the same<br />
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good-natured wisdom which has marked<br />
his work for The <strong>Milwaukee</strong> <strong>Road</strong>.<br />
"One of the respects in which men<br />
differ most greatly," he observed, "is in<br />
their reaction to this business of retiring.<br />
Some look forward to it as an interesting<br />
new career, while others go out<br />
feeling that they have been done a great<br />
injustice. I, personally, feel that a fellow<br />
should look upon it as a challenging<br />
assignment, just like any new joba<br />
thing to be worked at and done well.<br />
And I'm looking forward to it."<br />
An informal luncheon was held in his<br />
honor by the law department staff on<br />
Mar. 25.<br />
Mr. Bluhm has always been proud to<br />
be: known as a native of Indiana. He<br />
was born in Kendallville 65 years ago,<br />
and took his Bachelor of Arts degree<br />
from Indiana University in 1913. He<br />
studied law at the University of Chicago<br />
and was graduated from the law school<br />
in 1917. During the first World War<br />
he served as an ensign in the United<br />
States Navy, and upon returning to<br />
civilian life wel1t into private law prac.<br />
tice in Chicago. He continued in private<br />
practice until he entered the service of<br />
The <strong>Milwaukee</strong> <strong>Road</strong> as assistant gen.<br />
eral solicitor in 1922. In 1931 he was<br />
advanced to the position of general attorney,<br />
and 1° years later became gen-<br />
W. J. Quinn<br />
M. L. Bluhm<br />
eral solicitor. He was elected general<br />
counsel on Dec. 13, 1950, and was further<br />
advanced to the position of vice<br />
president on May 8, 1951.<br />
Mr. Bluhm is a member of the American,<br />
Illinois State and Chicago Bar<br />
Associations, the Society of Trial Law.<br />
yers, the American Judicature Society,<br />
the Law and Tax Committees of the<br />
A.A.R., and is currently cha'irman of the<br />
Western Conference of Railway Counsel.<br />
Commenting on his career, Mr.<br />
Bluhm expressed himself as having<br />
been extremely fortunate in the scope<br />
of the law work in which he had en.<br />
gaged. ."<br />
"It has included not just a little bit,<br />
but quite a lot, of almost everything",<br />
he said. "Among other things, there has<br />
been contract and personal injury work,<br />
commerce matters, abandonments, equipment<br />
trust matters, labor law, trial work,<br />
tax and real estate matters." Having<br />
been on the job during the two periods<br />
of reorganization-1925 to 1928, and<br />
1935 to 1945-he was called upon .to<br />
do a great deal of work in that connection,<br />
as welL<br />
Aside from his intention to take a<br />
few trips and have some fun, Mr. Bluhm<br />
has no immediate plans for his retirement,<br />
although he intends to keep busy.<br />
Should retirement prove too inactive,<br />
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