Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the dapper Dictator docked at Miami, sped to Washington by private car. A guard of honor (four squads of Marines, with drum & bugle corps) met him at Union Station and celebrations began along the well-trodden trail-wreaths at Arlington and Mount Vernon, inspection of the CCC camp at Fort Hunt, cocktails with Congressmen. But the next day, Death squelched the squeeze play. In deference to his late Secretary of the Navy (see below). President Roosevelt postponed Trujillo's tea to this week. The visit with Secretary Hull became a brief formal call.* The Pan American party...
...miles, never had an accident. Three weeks ago, still heading for the horizon, still happy as newlyweds, the Dankowskes nosed the 1 6-year-old Nomad out of Chicago toward California. Fondly beaming on Wife Mary, Fred Dankowske announced that they would keep on to the end of the trail. Said he: "This is the finest kind of life. It costs only $160 a month and you see the dreams you carry in your heart...
Adventurer Miller tells how boys' noses are bored to take inch-wide bamboo plugs in each nostril, how a native village smells two days' travel away ("an acrid odor . . . like smoke from a bonfire of rubber boots"), how a trail-cutter can die from a cobra bite before hitting the ground. His accounts of jungle sex are more colorful if less accurate than an anthropologist's. For squeamish readers there is always the dedication: "To Mother...
...Townsend's next strategy is to send oratorical squads called "trail blazers," ten men to a squad, into the districts of 53 Representatives who accepted his movement's support in the last election, then deserted at the showdown. This activity will be concentrated in the Great Lakes States. ("Why, 75% of the Congressmen west of the Mississippi are for us anyhow!") By election time next year, if he has campaign funds enough, the Doctor expects to have so spread the fear of oldsters that the next Plan vote in Congress will be different. For his radio fund...
Last year, after twelve years as Yankee second baseman, Tony Lazzeri at 33 started his twilight trail. Released from the Yankees, he served as braintruster for the Chicago Cubs, quit the Cubs to join the Dodgers, quit the Dodgers to join the Giants-all within 14 months. Last week, on the same day that old Pete Alexander, along with ten other living Immortals, was installed in Baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, Tony Lazzeri quit major-league ballplaying, signed up as manager of the minor-league Toronto Maple Leafs...