Word: station
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrival in Washington last week was ruggedly simple. His wife, with whom he recently celebrated his golden wedding anniversary, was using his private car, Glen Ridge, in Massachusetts, and at 8:40 a. m. the Guest of the Day stepped from a Pullman compartment into Washington's Union Station. In his wake was his son Edsel. Awaiting them was a sole and unofficial host. Major H. M. Cunningham, superintendent of the Ford assembly plant alongside the Potomac in nearby Alexandria, Va. In Major Cunningham's Lincoln, the party purred past the Alexandria home of John L. Lewis, through...
Some 150 Senators and Representatives and their wives, led by Vice President Garner like a small Scoutmaster, trooped to the station and got on the Azalea Special. In Charleston, as the guests of the city, they visited the Navy yards, rubbered at beauty queens, went to a ball. At a luncheon given by Mayor Burnet Maybank, Mr. Garner made news by opening the closet and displaying the current Democratic family skeleton. Referring to a "misunderstanding between me and my boss" (by whom he meant President Roosevelt) he said: "I sometimes do not agree with my wife. You can understand...
...minutes, is always the same. Each of the three candidates by the time they stop touring next week, will have covered all the towns with over 500 population, in Florida's 67 counties. Driving between towns, diligent Candidate Sholtz makes a practice of stopping at every filling station, general store, to distribute his own campaign literature. Negroes cannot vote in Florida Democratic primaries bub whenever Dave Sholtz spies a white man on one of Florida's long, straight roads, he stops his car, gets out to say: "I'm Dave Sholtz. I want you to vote...
...Scientist Karl Ehrhardt of Germany published photographs of a female monkey holding a young guinea pig in a maternal manner. This foster mother had been injected with a crude extract from pituitary glands. In 1932 Dr. Oscar Riddle and his associates at the Carnegie Institution's station for experimental evolution on Long Island obtained in almost pure form the same pituitary substance which had made Ehrhardt's monkey act like a mother. Because it was a stimulant of milk secretion this substance was called prolactin...
James M. Landis, Dean of the Law School in the Guardian lecture over station WEEI last night discussed Liberty As An Evolutionary Idea. Conceptions of liberty, he contended, must be allowed to change with economic conditions. Some pertinent excerpts from his speech follow...