Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some Denverites: Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, Shoeman William Lewis Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Assistant Secretary of State James Grafton Rogers, Paul Whiteman, Author Courtney Ryley Cooper, Silverman Simon Guggenheim whose son is named George Denver...
...Near the spot President Garfield was assassinated. *Federal troops were used to put down the "whiskey rebellion" in Pennsylvania (1794), maintain order in "bleeding" Kansas (1856-57) break the Pullman strike in Chicago (1894) and the coal strike in West Virginia (1921). *Last week Reds were accused of starting bank runs in the Mid-west...
Friendly Texans thronged the Dallas railroad station last week to greet their own John Nance ("Jack") Garner, homeward bound from Washington. The Democratic vice-presidential nominee bustled out of his through Pullman long enough to give them a first taste of his campaign oratory. Above locomotive whistles, escaping steam and lusty cheers he shouted...
...York. There in 1893 he found "the most perfect human being I had ever seen"?Eugene Sandow, the strong man. New York had laughed at Sandow. Ziegfeld took him to Chicago, cleared as high as $30,000 per week exhibiting him after he had inveigled Mrs. George Pullman and Mrs. Potter Palmer into feeling his muscles. After Sandow his "most perfect human beings" were all women...
...then devote himself to "engineering developments." During his work for the Ford Motor Co., Engineer Mayo, a keen-eyed man with big ears and tight lips, has been connected with almost every major development in the company, including the building of dams, ore carriers and the 40-passenger Ford "Pullman" airplane...