Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dissipating the labor clouds, talked discursively about "miners being human beings," about "practicing the arts of peace in a world of strife," about "democracy and its relation to our industrial conditions." Only once did he make any reference to the one topic uppermost in everyone's mind-the bus strike. He declared, "The whole world has its eyes today on London. ... I appeal to the handful of men with whom rests peace or war to give the best present to this country that could be given at this moment...
...chartered bus will start from the station on the corner of Blackstone Street and Haymarket Square, Boston. There will be no charge for the trip with the exception of transportation fares...
...Chicago last January the jury hearing the second embezzlement trial of ousted Superior Court Clerk Frank V. Zintak spent most of its time on a tour of saloons in the neighborhood as well as some that were far enough away from the Criminal Courts Building to require a bus ride to reach them. Keeper of the twelve men was Former Deputy Sheriff Daniel Miller, who went along...
Followed by 40 automobiles, the bus sped down the highway toward Duck Hill. Two miles from the scene of last December's murder, 500 country folk, including women and children, waited expectantly in a patch of pinewood. When the motorcade from Winona arrived, the mob closed in to watch as the terrified Negroes were dragged from the bus. People in the back rows could hear heavy chains clink as the two blackamoors were made fast to trees...
...bevy of savants approaching Chapel Hill, N. C., showed that they at least glance at the front pages of their newspapers. The American Chemical Society was holding a convention at the University of North Carolina. The chemists detrained at Durham, where arrangements had been made to convey them by bus the twelve miles to Chapel Hill. In the line of special busses waiting at the Durham station was a regular bus whose route missed the university by half a mile. Some 25 scientists, including General Electric Co.'s Nobel Laureate Irving Langmuir, heedlessly climbed aboard this bus, were driven...