Word: sidetracked
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...were about to leave Shanghai, President Chiang wired orders that the train must not leave, whereat the students threatened to wreck the station. After furious wrangling Shanghai railroad officials pretended to yield. Students cheered as their train chuffed out of Shanghai station, raged when it was shunted onto a sidetrack at Chinkiang, 50 miles from Nanking, and left there by an engine which absconded before the students could lynch the fireman and engineer...
...forces that had already taken the field, sweep into Havana in triumph. There was some traitor in the club. The Coral was scarcely free of the pier before Cuban gunboats started in pursuit. Seventeen men, including onetime President Menocal's two brothers Fausto and Guatimon slipped ashore to sidetrack the pursuers. They were promptly arrested and clapped into Cabana fortress. The Coral disappeared in the direction of Cuba's western tip, Pinar del Rio. Three days later the puffing gunboat Baire found the yacht loafing along the coast. It was captured without a shot. A crew of three...
...side issue of this political phase is the use which has been made of Muscle Shoals to sidetrack effective action on the Federal regulation of interstate power. . . . This public necessity has been held aside for 18 months and time of Congress given to 1% of the power and the interests of i% of the people of the U. S. which is proportion of the Muscle Shoals problem to the whole...
Birthday. Ignace Jan Paderewski, pianist and onetime (1919) premier of Poland, now touring 70 U. S. cities. Age: 70. Date: Nov. 6. Celebration: reading 300 congratulatory telegrams & cables, in his private car, Superb, on a sidetrack in Buffalo, en route from Toronto to Fort Wayne...
...Capital News Service, speaking for the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite in the South, declared that the present Congress cannot afford to sidetrack the bill. "The pressure ... is overwhelming. Every patriotic and almost every fraternal order is behind it. Churches indorse it. Teachers, schools and colleges, alumni associations and undergraduates are for it. Chambers of Commerce and civic organizations demand it. Parents want it. School organizations want it. Almost every-one who knows anything about it wants it. ... The time has come when the United States should do as much for education as it does for wheat and corn...