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...Pullman Porter Jones, sympathy...
...Year actually achieve intrinsic personal development within the period they dominate. But General Johnson developed from a picturesque phrasemaker. who could throw a highly printable aphorism to the Press while climbing up a Pullman step, into an embroidered and inspiring orator...
...same time, Southeastern and Western roads dropped the 50% Pullman surcharge and reduced first-class (chair and sleeping car) fare from 3.6? a mi. to 3?. Eastern and Midwestern lines have so far failed to follow suit because passenger business is their chief source of revenue. Stung by the railroad's bid for passenger service, the Association of Motor Bus Operators appealed to President Roosevelt. Under threat of upsetting their NRA code cart the association demanded that the roads be prevented "from operating at ruinous rates designed to cripple or destroy highway transportation...
...Boston's South Station, flaxen-haired Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall boarded a Pullman for Washington, gave the conductor a lower-berth ticket. Said he: "The President's daughter can't ride in an ordinary lower berth. We have engaged the drawing room for you." Said she: 'I've $4.53 here in my purse and that's all. If you want to give me a drawing room for that I'm perfectly satisfied." She slept in the lower berth...
Produced last winter as a play, Christopher Bean emerges in the cinema only mildly impaired by scenes such as a wild ride in a dilapidated Ford and a preposterous interlude in a Pullman car, inserted to give Marie Dressier a chance to execute her comic chompings, blinkings and shoulder twitchings. Good shot: Beulah Bondi, when she wants him to cheat their old servant, urging Lionel Barrymore to think with his eyes closed...