Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lane of 14-foot cornstalks appeared at the West Branch, Iowa, railroad station. Down it, early one morning, last week, marched Nominee Hoover with his wife and sons. Automobiles carried them through the proudest village in the U. S. to a house of which the original part was a log cabin, where, 54 years and eleven days before, Herbert Clark Hoover had been born. A Mrs. Jennie Scellars, who now owns the house and has declined to sell it to Mrs. Hoover, served up an oldtime Iowa breakfast. On her front porch she drove a fast trade in what...
When the officials of Newburyport, Mass., stopped a village roughneck named Andrew Joseph ("Bossy") Gillis from running a gasoline station in a restricted quarter of the town, he opened his mouth, campaigned for Mayor of Newburyport, got elected (TIME, Jan. 16). He "fired" the officials who had annoyed him and went ahead with his gasoline station. But neighbors pressed their suit and last week Mayor Gillis,was sentenced, by a county judge, to 330 days in jail and a fine of $1,140. "This man is an outlaw," said the judge, who some years ago had sentenced...
...treaty. Twenty-five minutes later Mr. Kellogg was in a train which rattled into the Gare St.-Lazare, Paris, 45 minutes ahead of schedule, to the discomfiture of newsmen, of whom only one, forlorn, was present. U. S. Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick, prominent welcomer, arrived at the station late...
...grim situation! Perhaps Prohibition is a success, but it is hard to think it is when women come drunk to my little coffee house in the Grand Central [Station] to steady up on a strong cup of tea before going home...
...friend, Contractor Kenny, to come up with the "St. Nicholas" for quick passage to Chicago. With them went a dozen other friends and his son, Arthur. At Englewood, a company of politicians boarded the train to converse with a strangely unenthusiastic Al. At the La Salle Street Station, massed battalions of Democracy seethed to glimpse an Al arrayed in black. Up Michigan Boulevard sped a strangely guarded Al-dozens of motorcycle police, five detectives, three machine guns. Columns of people lined the streets, blackened the windows-people who scarcely saw the Al who almost hid in the corner...