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George Washington Browns, and there are many such in the South, will feel not a little piqued that their beloved hewer of the cherry tree has posthumously become the patron of the "Society for the Prevention of Calling Pullman, Car Porters 'George'." The inference is inevitable to a superstitious mind that the ghost of the great Father has risen in Danish wrath to object to the promiscuous use of his forename. A religious touch--which may smooth over the unmistakable insult to the present holders of the title--is added to the movement by the fact that Senator Moses...
Aside from the sentimental objection to calling Messieurs Washington, Clemenceau, Cohan, and the pullman porter by a common Christian name there seems to be no valid basis for the Society's efforts. No other appellation but "George" will do for the porter. He can not be expected to reply to "Pat" or "Mike", nor even "Hans" or "Fritz". He is usually too old to be called "boy" and too young to be hailed as "old man". And furthermore, he is too important a personage to be addressed by any title but one which traditionally connotes dignity and respect...
...Holy Father, receiving one Florence Lowden in special audience, said: "I once blessed the name of the Pullman people when I was traveling in Poland as a papal nuncio." Miss Lowden is the eldest daughter of former Governor Lowden and granddaughter of the late Mr. Pullman, all Protestants...
...Tourist in the Pullman...
...Mexico. His diplomatic record, although brief, is considered able. Frank O. Lowden of Oregon, Ill., former Governor of his state (1917-1921) and an outstanding candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1920. From a law practice in Chicago he branched into society and politics. He married Florence Pullman, daughter of George M. Pullman (sleeping cars). McKinley offered to make him Assistant Postmaster General but he declined. He lost the Gubernatorial nomination in 1904. Three years later he was elected to Congress and served for about five years. In the Republican split of 1912 he stood by Taft...