Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated the Watson-Parker bill to abolish the Railroad Labor board, to establish instead a series of arbitration boards for settling disputes...
Later, a serious railroad strike was called; excitement spread...
...dancing man, a talkative "cake-eater."* Than which nothing could be more misguided. He is a state champion pole-vaulter, a college basketball captain of all-Western calibre. When they heard he had won the oratorical title, his college mates rushed to prepare a demonstration at the railroad station. He had joined the distinguished roster of national intercollegiate eloquence champions, a roster including an author, a bishop, a governor, senators (including the late LaFollette, the retired Beveridge), six college presidents and many another Who of Who's Who. Incidentally, he had won for Wabash her fourth national championship...
...college, but joined them some three days after they had been forced to retire from Tun Huang. Messrs. Jayne and Priest continued west to Urumchi the capital of Chinese Turkestan, where, after some delay, they received the Russians' permission to strike to the northwest and take the trans-Siberian Railroad to Peking...
...time, Douglas Fairbanks was satisfied with living the life of an ordinary man. Of course, he was troubled with an athletic complex which found expression in his entering houses by way of fire escapes and windows rather than through doors. But nevertheless he wore Stein-Block Clothes, rode on railroad trains, and in general portrayed "the man in the street...