Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Quincy Adams who was the sixth U. S. President, John Scott Harrison who begot a President of the United States; the late Robert Todd Lincoln who was U. S. Secretary of War and President, Pullman Co.; Richard Folsom Cleveland, exponent of high principles in the practice of law; Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who was Secretary of the Navy, which office his father held before him; Robert A. and Charles P. Taft, able lawyer-politicians of Ohio...
...Harry Lauder, singer, Scot: "Recently at Nashville, Tenn., a Pacific & Atlantic photographer snapped me tipping a Pullman porter. Last week, throughout the U. S. the picture was printed with the caption: 'ANOTHER ILLUSION SHATTERED...
Then came the Civil War, "a white gash." Lincoln, a man of full height, was cut down. Soon after, men were describing life as "not dying." Industrialism continued the war, continued slavery. Lincoln's son headed the Pullman Co. Andrew Carnegie vowed to retire to Oxford at 30 but amassed millions instead, and wished another generation the joy he had missed in libraries. Charles Francis Adams went in for railroads. Colorless, sad Howells, despairing Mark Twain, bitter-black Ambrose Bierce were the successors of Herman Melville, whose grappling with the primeval had been tragic but sublime; of Whitman, whom...
...Lincoln's. (The late Robert Todd Lincoln was president of the Pullman Company from...
...Lowden. (Mrs. Frank O. Lowden was Florence Pullman...