Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon the great eleven-car campaign train, with the President's car Pioneer as caboose, pulled out of Washington. Aboard were nearly 100 persons, including the Nominee's wife, his Secretary of Agriculture, his private secretaries, Senators O'Mahoney, Wheeler, Pittman, newshawks and cameramen...
...still raining when the Sunflower Special pulled into Chicago next morning. Not to be outdone by the Democratic Nominee, who has lately demonstrated notable indifference to rain, the Republican Nominee hopped into an open car for his drive up Michigan Avenue, got himself thoroughly soaked for the benefit of scattered groups of admirers bunched along...
...chance happen to appear on the Vienna station platform just as Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg was about to depart for Budapest to attend the funeral of Hungarian Premier Julius Gombos. The Chancellor would then be obliged, as a matter of courtesy, to invite Goring into his private car, and when they alighted together at Budapest it would appear that Dr. Schuschnigg was hand in glove with the Nazis...
This piece of elephantine German clever ness came to naught when pious little Chancellor Schuschnigg never did show up on the station platform and disgruntled General Goring climbed into his sleeping car berth grunting curses at von Papen's scheme. Unknown to the Germans and as a complete surprise to most Austrians, Dr. Schuschnigg was engaged in seizing supreme power for himself and his following of Catholic bigwigs by a drastic Cabinet decree in effect making the Chancellor a Dictator. He was able to make this move because the 120,000 irregular "troops" of the Austrian Heimwehr had fortnight...
...blast a reservoir on his farm at Stanfordville, N. Y., Dr. Edgar Ernst needed 50 Ib. of dynamite, ordered it sent by freight from the du Pont factory in Wilmington, Del. Last week, in a special car pulled by a special engine. Dr. Ernst's dynamite arrived. Confronted with the difficulty of transporting a package no bigger than a soap box which was nonetheless capable of blowing up a complete train, du Pont had hired a whole boxcar, nailed the crate to the floor in the middle, sealed the doors, plastered the outside with placards screaming EXPLOSIVES! The car...