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...Republican predecessor, Frederick Huff Payne, who signed the contracts in question. Both testified that they took full responsibility for the contracts and still regarded them as in the best interests of the Government. Then the Army prosecutor produced two used round-trip railroad tickets to San Francisco which, including Pullman tickets, cost $369.70 and were charged to Silverman's account at the Hotel Mayflower...
...private Pullman car in New Orleans bounced red-headed Editor Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson of the Washington Herald, crowing: "I'd give everything I've got to be young and husky and a newspaper reporter. And would I be one hell-roaring reporter...
...Independent Merchants understood that, in the absence of the Press, Mr. Patman would give their annual convention a fighting speech against chains. Mr. Patman understood that he would be met at the station by a delegation of Independent Merchants and a band. Stepping expectantly out of his Pullman, he looked in vain for delegation or band. At length one man rushed up, pumped his hand. He turned out to be General Manager J. T. Young of California's biggest grocery chain, Safeway Stores. Indignant, Representative Patman proceeded to the convention alone, brushed aside apologies. Behind closed doors he eyed...
Most spectacular Topeka arrivals, aptly symbolizing the kind of backing every Presidential hopeful needs, were two private cars and a chartered Pullman which rolled into the railroad yards of the Great Economizer's capital last week. From one private car descended New Deal-hating Publisher Paul Block. From the Pullman descended New Deal-hating Publisher William Randolph Hearst, who arrived to look for the first time on the homely face of the man he began edging toward the White House three months ago. With "The Chief" was his Columnist Arthur Brisbane. From the other private car descended the editor...
...mulatto barber whose father was a Spanish nobleman and whose mother was a Negro. A Dominican lay brother, Blessed Martin was a "Father of the Poor." The movement to elevate Blessed Martin to sainthood is being fostered not only by priests who give Porres leaflets to Pullman porters but also by 50,000 members of the Blessed Martin Guild, founded by The Torch, Dominican monthly whose editor is Rev. Edward Hughes 0. P. In the Dominicans' swank Manhattan Church of St. Vincent Ferrer last month was unveiled a statue of Blessed Martin (see cut, p. 46), first...