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...days before President Roosevelt took office in 1933, he lost his Attorney General-designate when old Thomas J. Walsh, on his second honeymoon, dropped-dead of a heart attack in his Pullman drawing room. Following year a throat disease forced Secretary of the Treasury William Hartman Woodin out of the Cabinet, later killed him. Last week Death struck its first square blow at the Roosevelt Cabinet when Secretary of War George Henry Dern died after a long illness in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. He had suffered a severe attack of influenza in Charleston, S. C. last spring...
...Denver was assembled a very special train of nine cars, the last of which was named David Livingstone, after the eminent missionary-explorer who disappeared for five years in Africa, to be found by Journalist Henry Morton ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume") Stanley. Reserved for the Republican nominee, this private Pullman was equipped with microphones, loudspeakers, floodlights for rear platform campaigning...
Less roomy than Pullmans, the new sleepers have a great advantage in price. A Chicago-New York lower berth Pullman ride costs $33.25. In the bus it costs $20.25-and all meals are free. At present limited to this run, which they make in 26 hr., the new sleepers will go on a transcontinental schedule as soon as more are built...
...June 15). Last week special London police squads were assigned to handle expected crowds at His Majesty's departure. During the month, however, British public opinion had changed so completely that scarcely 50 people were on hand to wave good-by to the Emperor's first-class Pullman. He took second-class on reaching the Continent and as his Geneva-bound train halted at Paris the King of Kings was greeted by one lone French official. That night, outside His Majesty's compartment door, one of Ethiopia's doughtiest generals, Ras Kassa, stood guard...
...lipped as his father, Banker Baker has offered no explanation for his recent resignations from the boards of General Electric, New York Central and Consolidated Gas Co. of New York. Nor was any explanation given last week when he left two other traditional Baker seats, U. S. Steel and Pullman. Reports were that Mr. Baker was in poor health. On his shoulders still rest directorships in General Motors Corp., Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, Provident Loan Society, American Museum of Natural History, New York Public Library. Like his father before him, Banker Baker would probably let only Death...