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...Near the spot President Garfield was assassinated. *Federal troops were used to put down the "whiskey rebellion" in Pennsylvania (1794), maintain order in "bleeding" Kansas (1856-57) break the Pullman strike in Chicago (1894) and the coal strike in West Virginia (1921). *Last week Reds were accused of starting bank runs in the Mid-west...
Friendly Texans thronged the Dallas railroad station last week to greet their own John Nance ("Jack") Garner, homeward bound from Washington. The Democratic vice-presidential nominee bustled out of his through Pullman long enough to give them a first taste of his campaign oratory. Above locomotive whistles, escaping steam and lusty cheers he shouted...
...York. There in 1893 he found "the most perfect human being I had ever seen"?Eugene Sandow, the strong man. New York had laughed at Sandow. Ziegfeld took him to Chicago, cleared as high as $30,000 per week exhibiting him after he had inveigled Mrs. George Pullman and Mrs. Potter Palmer into feeling his muscles. After Sandow his "most perfect human beings" were all women...
...then devote himself to "engineering developments." During his work for the Ford Motor Co., Engineer Mayo, a keen-eyed man with big ears and tight lips, has been connected with almost every major development in the company, including the building of dams, ore carriers and the 40-passenger Ford "Pullman" airplane...
...Shoup, president of the company since Jan. 1, 1929 when he succeeded William Sproule. The eastern rail and steamship lines were managed by Angus Daniel McDonald, vice chairman of the executive committee which in turn was headed by Hale Hol den. oldtime chief of the Burlington, whose son is Pullman Inc.'s eastern vice president. By last week's changes Mr. McDonald becomes president of the company, making him operating chief of all its transportation routes. He will be responsible to Hale Holden, for whom is created the new position of company chairman. President Shoup is shifted...