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...great war hard times have followed. We have gone through many such periods, but our people have always come out and gone forward until today our nation is the leading nation of the world." Alone on the stump, the Vice President travelled from town to town in an ordinary Pullman instead of the private railroad...
...Charles White that a type of dual management almost existed between the two companies. When in 1929 President White, an expert driver, was killed in an accident, the directors elected Mr. Woodruff to succeed him. He accepted with the remark, "I guess I will have to live in a Pullman." For a year Mr. Woodruff held both presidencies. Then he resigned as White's chief executive and became chairman. For some time it has been rumored that he and other big White holders wanted to sell out in order to give more time to their own businesses. But the reports...
...Boss Croker. Propaganda was another part. He admits that Hearst and the yellow press were a great help in spreading Spanish atrocity stories, rousing U. S. sympathies for the revolting Cubans. The Junta's agents had to be organized but kept under cover: one of their men was made Pullman conductor on the Manhattan-Tampa run. As the popularity of the Cuban cause increased, Rubens was pestered with volunteers. He let the late Author Stephen Crane make a trip on the filibustering Commodore, which was wrecked. "When I met Crane again. . . . I asked him how one particularly self-important...
...Treasury $4,241 when six Senators (North Dakota's Nye, Nevada's Oddie, Illinois' Glenn, Arizona's Ashurst, South Dakota's Norbeck, Montana's Walsh) spent eight Christmas holidays investigating the Everglades as a national park possibility. Double railroad fare was paid for all so they could have individual Pullman drawing rooms or compartments. Two houseboats were hired for five days at a cost of $1,687.50 (auditors first thought the boats had been bought). Observations from a blimp cost $75. A .set of 14 photographs for each Senator added $168 to the bill...
Some Denverites: Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, Shoeman William Lewis Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Assistant Secretary of State James Grafton Rogers, Paul Whiteman, Author Courtney Ryley Cooper, Silverman Simon Guggenheim whose son is named George Denver...