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...mourned Philip Randolph, Editor of The Messenger, Negro publication. He was writing of the lamentable plight of the Negro Pullman Porter ?poor black amorons who, galvanized by slave psychology, kneel to scrub the boots, rub off the trouser-cuffs of patrons and company officials, too timorous, too servile to better their plight...
...Briand, looking older, slightly more rotund and as disreputable as ever he did, descended from his Pullman car and was met with effusive greetings from his British confrere. These urbanities over, the two statesmen posed for the ubiquitous cameramen, beaming and cracking jokes in French. "Non," he had nothing to say for publication. The two custodians of their respective countries' foreign policies exchanged smiles and followed them up with an exchange of hearty farewells. M. Briand sped away to the Hyde Park Hotel in Knightsbridge. Mr. Chamberlain betook him to his residence in Morpeth Mansions...
...Refused to abolish the railway surcharge of 50% on Pullman car tickets or to reduce it. (Saved the railways...
...that relishes: an elaborate Southern simile- (false teeth that clattered) "like a fox-trotting horse with a loose shoe crossing a covered bridge;" an unexpected wise-crack-"King George the Fifth and Queen Mary the Four Fifths;" a sensible suggestion-floor lights, clothes ockers, tractable windows, longer blankets for Pullman cars, wash suits for city men in summer...
...forward Pullman, in which Daniels was seated, left the rails, bumped up beside the locomotive. Clouds of searing steam, pouring from the boiler, hissed through the car's open door. Daniels plunged through the scalding vapor to shut the door. He was alive when rescuers entered. Taken outside, he refused first aid. "Fix that little girl first," said he. Doctors obeyed, returned to find Daniels dead...