Word: stationers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ominous was the atmosphere of official Washington on the evening last week when President Roosevelt's train rolled into Union Station from the West. Secretary of State Hull, looking grave as granite, stepped aboard before it had stopped rolling. Behind the Secretary of State followed the Secretary...
...press. Otherwise reporters would have had to wait through a wet evening before filing accounts of the President's conference with his top diplomat. Similarly, the President's press conference was really canceled because he needed time to read reports. And Secretary Woodring had gone to the station for no reason more pressing than courtesy to his chief and love of limelight...
...Tsarist major general, Nicholas Theodore Bogomoletz, who had just distinguished himself on the German front, was put in charge of the armored trains of the White Russian armies operating in Southern Siberia. One night soldiers from General Bogomoletz' own train, drawn up at the station at Posolskaya, inexplicably opened fire on a detachment of U. S. expeditionary forces patrolling the line. Two U. S. soldiers were killed. General Bogomoletz-who said he was asleep when the shooting started-was tried and exonerated by his Russian superiors, much to the dissatisfaction of the commander of the A.E.F. in Siberia, General...
...garishly-lighted station-master's room in Albany, whence a bus had finally churned its way. Amid the bedlam of ringing bells and frantically shouting railroaders, the young assistant parried the thrusts of angry passengers. "But it's an Act of God. Yes, we're sorry you were stalled thirty hours, but we can't help it. This office can't do anything. Jack, number five will proceed at ten miles per hour beyond Schenectady. You'll have to see the Passenger Agent. But I've told you we can't locate him. Number Seven to Chicago: two coaches, diner...
Memorial Hall. Fire Station--during the course of time it becomes apparent that the fire engines here keep pretty busy. Explanation lies in the fact that Harvard has the city of Cambridge's central fire station in its backyard, even as Harvard Square lies geographically in the center of the city...