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...historic occasion. In 1928 Mr. Lowden was Herbert Hoover's chief rival for the Republican nomination. When the party platform at Kansas City went rankly reactionary, the progressive son-in-law of the late George Pullman (sleeping cars) withdrew in a huff, left the convention delegates with but one answer to the question "Who but Hoover?" Last week Mr. Lowden, 74. was no longer a candidate but his work and words were still an important factor in Midwestern Republicanism. And furthermore he was about to be the chief speaker at a great Republican rally at Springfield, Ill. Mr. Hoover...
...that: the speed maintained to keep on time exceeds many trains, for we traveled over 60 m.p.h. for hours at a stretch . . . the motors are rather noisy in gear; on a smooth highway such as Kansas offers, travel even at high speed is considerably steadier than any extra-fare Pullman ever built; the natives of much of the route regard the bus as a creation of Mars, judging by the way they stare at the apparition as it roars along the boulevards or chugs through small-town streets; passengers have to trust to luck to find congenial traveling companions, inasmuch...
...been equipped with Westinghouse Air Brakes. . . . The Union Pacific boasted "one pure passenger train a day" out of Omaha, for San Francisco four days away. . . . Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific ("Safe-Reliable-Elegant") advertised that "its road bed is simply perfect and its track is laid with steel rails"; its Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars "lighted by Pintsch Gas." . . . Southern Pacific, in 1899, assured magazine readers that "a Personal Conductor and Porter go through with...
...passenger traffic, the railroads pulled themselves together, struck back with airconditioning, streamlining, high speeds, lower fares (TIME, May 13). The problem was not so much to popularize travel or sell individual tours as to make rail-riding look attractive once more. To do that job, 26 railroads and Pullman Co. combined for the first time in a joint institutional advertising campaign which comes to a climax next week with Railroad Week...
...Rosa Ponselle was ready to cooperate. In June the new manager will sail for Europe to sign more contracts. He was expected to be more lenient than Witherspoon in the matter of concerts, although he called them hazardous. "You come in from an engagement and catch cold on a Pullman. You are unavailable, not only while you are away, but while...