Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hungry boys walked up to a well-dressed man in the street. He smiled when he saw them and grinned when they told their story. "Here's $20," he said. So the two young hoboes ate, saw President McKinley's inauguration, then returned to Princeton by pullman. Last week one of the ex-hoboes filed an appeal with the Federal Board of Tax Appeals alleging that he had been overcharged $3,106.05 by the income tax bureau for 1922. He said his contributions to the Republican campaign fund in Pennsylvania in 1922 should be a legitimate deduction...
After four years, he returned to Illinois and became special counsel to the Pullman Co. In 1889 another request, this time from President Harrison, took him to London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Returning again to his native state, he refused to run for the U. S. Senate. George A. Pullman died and Mr. Lincoln became executor of his estate, enjoying a $400,000 fee and the presidency of the sleeping car company. He visited the Buffalo Exposition and witnessed a third presidential assassination, McKinley shot by Anarchist Czolgosz...
...retired to the Pullman board chairmanship and has since avoided the public eye. From his summer home at Manchester, Vt., or his big brick mansion in Washington, he issues into the limelight only on very pressing occasions, such as the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial by President Harding on May 30, 1922, or the hanging of his mother's portrait in the White House a fortnight ago, (TIME, Mar. 1, THE PRESIDENCY...
...York University invented the "floating college," a college on a globe-circling steamboat. This project has yet to materialize (TIME, June 29). To Princeton University goes credit for the first "rolling course," a college course administered in a continent-touring Pullman car. The car will be specially designed to accommodate 22 professors, instructors and students. It will travel 10,000 miles. The course will be one in geology and mineralogy and the car will leave Princeton July 1 and stop at localities of geological interest for field trips...
This project too has yet to materialize, but its announcement last week was underwritten by the following names: William George Besler, President of the Railroad Presidents of America; David White, Chairman of the Division of Geology and Geography of the National Research Council; Edward Francis Carry, President of the Pullman Co.; Charles Campbell, Deputy Minister of Mines for Canada; Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern Railroad; Stephen Tyng Mather, Director of the National Park Service; Hermon Carey Bumpus, American Museum of Natural History (1902-11); Charles Doolittle Waicott, President of the Smithsonian Institution; C. A. Fetterolf, International Mercantile Marine...