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...couldn't spare much time, so he took a night Pullman from Chicago to Memphis, chartered a plane there, came on to Monroe, arriving in time to make his speech, hurrying out to the airport immediately he had finished and flew to Memphis in time to get a night train back to Chicago. He paid the entire expense of the trip himself. He lost one day from his Chicago paper, but his good sportsmanship and courtesy to the Louisiana newspaper publishers and editors will not soon be forgotten. Behind that tough exterior you paint in such bitter colors...
Near Colfax last fortnight an L. & A. freight was wrecked, five cars derailed. Outside Alexandria a shower of bullets spattered the Shreveport-New Orleans Hustler, smashed a Pullman window, narrowly missed a passenger. At Winnfield birthplace of Huey Long, a howling pistolwaving, rock-throwing mob besieged a tramload of Louisiana State University football rooters returning to Baton Rouge after a game with the University of Arkansas at Shreveport. Train guards ordered all lights out. The passengers were forced to lie on the aisle floors for hours, keep up their courage by sucking at flasks until local police drove...
...fare from New York to Chicago was $47.95, or $40.76 in scrip.* New fare is $39.95, or $33.96 in scrip. Standard train plus Pullman fare from New York to Chicago is $33.25. On the Twentieth Century Limited it is $42.45. The Century takes 16½ hours; TWA, 4¼hours...
...York's W. C.T. U. Therefore he needed little preparation when he started out on his campaign on a platform opposing inflation, lotteries, Communism, crime, high taxes, war, and, above all, alcohol. Since he left his Manhattan home in June, he has traveled 25,000 miles in Pullman cars, visited 31 States, has only let five days pass without at least one speech. In some 300 addresses he has driven home his point that the Prohibition Party is the only party that "recognizes God as the source of good Government...
Although Nominee Thomas has scoured the continent from coast to coast, since July 1 has averaged two speeches a day and spent most of his nights in Pullman upper berths, although enough intellectual candor has gone into his speeches to debunk the inflated bombast of U. S. politics, this onetime Presbyterian minister has made much less impression in this campaign than he did in 1932. That year, because many a thoughtful citizen refused to have either Hoover or Roosevelt, the Socialist Party, with Norman Thomas heading its ticket, rolled up 884.741 votes its best record since Eugene Debs nearly touched...