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...Chicago, the Pullman Co. named a car after a Negro porter. Rejecting, for the first time in its history, the tepid, sad-eyed romanticism of such names as Bellameade, Merryvale, Alamar, it christened a car after a Negro who died, last month, in an attempt to save the lives of the passengers when his car was wrecked in New Jersey*-Oscar J. Daniels...
...wife left the White House to the mercies of repairers and redecorators for two months. At 1.05 p. m. the Bar Harbor Express pulled out of the Union Station, Washington. The first section, comprised of a baggage car, a diner, a compartment car for correspondents, a regular Pullman (the Lake Felicity) for the Coolidges and their immediate retinue, and an observation car, carried the party...
...Pullman Negroes Won in Revolution...
...seemed to covet its juicy bone of publicity, Dayton made ready. The Progressive Club "drove" for $5,000 for additional publicity. A drug store re-named itself "Monkeyville Soda Fountain" and dispensed miniature simians. To house the crowds expected, the railroad company was asked for a fleet of Pullman cars. Cordell Hull, onetime Democratic National Chairman, Rhea County's representative in Congress, was requested to beg a village of tents from the War Department. In the court house, radio broadcasting apparatus was set up, with loud speakers out on the lawn and Instructor Scopes, ordinarily a quiet and reasonable...
...drank his glass who might not have a penny by sunset. It dawned cloudily; the morning was bright and dour in fits, with little spurts of rain and a rattle of distant thunder like uneasy hoofs. On the sidings of the railroad waited eight and a half miles of Pullman cars. Airplanes were neatly parked near the grandstand. Innumerable financiers, editors, sportsmen, presidential candidates and sharkies, who knew a horse when they saw one, tried to see one, elbowing one another, as 20 nimble three-year-olds paraded to the barrier...