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...department. Elected unanimously, he pledged to help the organization's sick, needy, disabled and orphaned. Although "personally a Dry from a Dry-voting State." Commander Stevens had this to say about Prohibition: "One of the best places to feel the pulse of the people is in a Pullman smoking room. I have yet to sit in on a smoker conversation where the subject did not eventually drift to Prohibition and stay there for a thorough discussion. I believe we should really find out what the American people want. That will end it, one way or another." Before it rushed...
...third time he saw her, he proposed. They were married in 1919, have now three daughters and a son, live in a big house on Belmont Road near the Eugene Meyers. There they entertain frequently and well. When they gave their first Cabinet dinner to President & Mrs. Hoover, a Pullman-load of friends were also invited from Oklahoma to share their social glory. These friends marveled among themselves at how far "Pat" Hurley had come since 1883 when he was born among the grass roots of what is now Coal County, Okla...
...Pullman Co. decided to open an operating department in the East, with a vice president in charge at Philadelphia. Picked for the job: Hale Holden Jr., 33, son of the executive committee chairman of Southern Pacific...
...arrival. The deep vehemence of her twelve 600-h. p. Curtiss Conqueror motors beat down like a whole squadron of ordinary planes, stilling the clamor of streets and avenues as she passed over. People, peering from windows and sidewalks were amazed at a hull which is three winged Pullman sleepers in capacity. The shadow of her huge wings flickered over the city's roofs surrounded by moving specks which were the shadows of accompanying planes. The DO-X settled, with hardly any splash, in New York Harbor, discharged 60 passengers, took the air again lor Glenn Curtiss Airport where...
...Curtiss Airport, thousands of sight seers marveled at the size of the DO-X (157 ft. 5 in. wingspread, 131 ft. 4 in. long), at her aluminum body, her interior arranged like that of a Pullman car with well-cushioned seats, which can be converted into berths, facing each other on both sides of a central aisle. Experts made allowances for the extraordinary series of delays and postponements which had made her long flight almost comically slothful. Engineering and operative problems, in creasing in proportion to the size of a plane, could only be solved in actual flight. Captain Hammer...