Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bette Davis sued the New York Central and the Pullman Co. for $2,000, charged they had lost a trunkful of her clothes in or around Chicago...
Here was my experience: I left Fort Sill, Okla., at noon on a Saturday, and arrived in Oklahoma City late that afternoon, expecting a reservation (for which I wired ahead two days previous). . . . Reporting to the train at the appointed hour, I found that although I already possessed a Pullman reservation, it had been sold again to a civilian who already occupied the berth (it being then 11 o'clock). Therefore, I rode in a coach sitting upon my suitcase-no seats there either, all night and half of the next day-contemplating my reservation, which I still held...
While first-graders learn about Negro policemen and Pullman porters, other primary pupils (white and colored) are being told of Negro contributions to civilization, U.S. history, the war effort. Examples of Negro subject matter woven into the general class material...
...studies in modern leather and-chrome interiors, must be visited; white suits must be retrieved from the shambles of the fitting room; that last carton of cigarettes to last through leave (if any) must be ordered from Ship's Service and paid for on the spot; once again those Pullman and airline reservations must be checked on; and weighty decisions must be made as to the expending of the balance in the Slush Fund. For a while it looked as if the Hotel Commander should be presented a new national ensign from this money, especially because at this point...
...Play. The Museum directors had a still more ambitious idea. They decided to surround Bunk with colleagues from the New Orleans past. They found Papa Mutt Carey, famous "dirty" trumpeter, working as a Pullman porter on the Southern Pacific. They got Kid Ory, greatest of oldtime tailgate* trombonists, from Los Angeles, where he had been raising chickens. They tracked down Clarinetist Wade Whaley at the Moore shipyards on San Francisco Bay. Ringing doorbells in San Francisco's Negro section, they finally located Bertha Gonsoulin, onetime pianist for Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. They added local Negro talent...