Word: station
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Huron, almost the entire population of 10,000 surged down to the railroad station. "South Dakota is the sunshine state, all the people here are feeling great," they chanted. A schoolgirl drum-corps accompanied the song, prompted Mrs. Coolidge to call out: "This is better than being in schoof, isn't it?" Then the crowd sang another song, a parody of the famed Gallagher-Shean melody, ending with the refrain: "Absolutely President Coolidge, South Dakota welcomes you." Pleased, the President asked for a copy of this song, received a fistful as he extended his arm from the observation...
...Navy officials refused to discuss the Mitchell attack, except for Assistant Secretary Robinson's remark, quoted above. Colonel Lindbergh, however, said: "It [the defect found in the Spirit of St. have been caused by carelessness on anyone's part. ... I wish particularly to compliment the naval air station at Anacostia on the high character of its personnel and to express my sincere appreciation for the prompt and efficient manner in which they cared for my plane." Undeterred, Mr. Mitchell next issued a blanket charge of naval incompetence in aviation matters. He maintained that...
...gave funds for biological or mental research at Yale University, the State University of Iowa, and the Marine Biological Station at Pacific Grove, Calif...
Soon a Royalist-Communist free fight with canes and hurtled rocks began. Because the office of L'Action Française is near the Station St. Lazare, many an arriving tourist thought that revolution had broken out in France. At last police reserves separated the combatants-though not until some 20 civilians and 10 policemen had received major bruises. All the while Editor Daudet stood at the window of his office, cheering on the "Camelots" hurling such epithets as "Pig-men! Assassins! Red-Snouters! Bandits! Jelly-Bellies!" at the Communists...
Into the Central Station at Warsaw glided a long sleeping -car train from Berlin. It bore Comrade* A. P. Rosengolz, expelled Soviet Charge d'Affaires to Great Britain, who was en route last week back to Moscow (TIME, May 13). Stepping from the train, M. Rosengolz was greeted warmly by Comrade Peter Lazarevitch Vojkov, Soviet Minister to Poland, very generally believed to be an official who signed the death warrants of the late Tsar Nicholas II and his family. Arm in arm, the two Comrades entered the station buffet, ordered tall glasses of steaming tea. The train would wait...