Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five years ago Ensign Rowan, U.S.N.R. had to eat at a curtain-rigged table, Newsman Rowan ate in an open diner-thanks to the Supreme Court decision outlawing Jim Crow in dining cars on interstate trains. In New Orleans, by showing his Naval Reserve card, he even got a Pullman berth...
Johnson, the youngest of 11 children, was born in Rockville, Maryland, in 1890. He became a pullman porter on the New York Central's Twentieth Century Limited at the age of 19. After five years, he came to Harvard when social life centered in the expensive parties and polite society of the Claverly and Adams Houses. Except for a brief period of service in World War One, he stayed in Cambridge ever since...
During the Prohibition era, Johnson was well known at student parties because of his ability to get the best of bootlegged liquor from Canada by way of his old associates on the Pullman trains...
...Short moved in, Stephen T. Early, who had been filling in since the death of Charles G. Ross (TIME, Dec. 18), bowed out with a little quip. Said Early, now a vice president of Pullman, Inc.: "If it was [a job as] a dollar-a-year man, I figure the President owes me about four and six-tenths cents...
Officials at South Station said that pullman cars have ben reserved for almost a month. Many travellers wanted coach reservations, which railroad companies do not give...