Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after his arrival back in Washington he was present at his father's assassination. Two years later he was admitted to the bar in Illinois and shortly afterward married. In 1881 he became Secretary of War under President Garfield. He arrived one day at a railway station to meet Mr. Garfield, and as he did so Garfield was shot. He was the only member of Garfield's Cabinet retained by President Arthur; so he served a full four years. Then he went back to law and became special counsel to the Pullman Co. In 1889 President Harrison sent...
...Sacred to the memory of Jonathan Trumbull, Esq., who, unaided by birth or powerful connections, but blessed with a noble and virtuous mind, arrived to the highest station in government. His patriotism and firmness during fifty years' employment in public life, and particularly in the very important part he acted in the American Revolution, as Governor of Connecticut, the faithful page of History will record...
Suddenly an urgent message flashed from Sandringham. A powerful limousine darted from the Prince's residence to the railway station. Out over a cleared track roared the special train?too late! Four minutes before it reached Wolferton, the local station adjacent to Sandringham, the Queen Mother breathed her last...
...Leon Campbell, of the College Astronomical Observatory staff, will deliver a 15-minute radio talk from Station WEEI, beginning at 6.45 o'clock this evening. Following the public educational program adopted by the Observatory staff early this fall, Mr. Campbell will speak in a non-technical manner on "Eclipses of the Sun, Moon, and Stars...
...next day a woman, whom she reluctantly identified as Mrs. George W. Steele, wife of the Commandant of the Air Station at Lakehurst, called on her and gave her a typewritten statement. "The first paragraph had me saying that when I accepted the invitation of the Board to appear as a witness I felt my husband needed defense, but that since that time I had changed my mind. In the second paragraph I was to say that my husband always regarded the Shenandoah, like a manofwar, was not to be used for exhibition purposes, but that he was ready...