Word: train
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lake Wales the train stopped and the presidential party was greeted by Governor and Mrs. Doyle E. Carlton of Florida, and by Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Bok of Philadelphia. Blue-coated Marines stood at attention. The President and his party motored three miles to Mountain Lake and then they walked slowly, almost reverently, into a "Sanctuary for Humans and Birds" that Edward Bok had conceived, that Architect Milton B. Medary had built, that Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olmstead had set in an aurora of tropical colors...
...Hoover told Mr. Smith about a prize pig that was put aboard his campaign train. Mr. Smith replied that, about the same time, he had received an ancient, lusty-throated rooster from a trans-Mississippi admirer who insisted that it symbolized "unterrified Democracy...
...office at 5 o'clock last Friday, left behind him an overcoat which contained the plans for the new Harvard Gymnasium, it was learned last night at Police Headquarters. He had stolen the plans, which were in the form of blue-prints, from a contractor on the Wellesley-Boston train last Wednesday morning, and was in the Doctor's office having his foot treated when the assault was committed. A warrant has been sworn out for the criminal, but the police have as yet no definite clues as to his identity or whereabouts...
...examining for finger-prints. Officer Dwyer traced the blue prints from the office of Coolidge, Shepley, Abbott, and Bullfinch to a Wellesley contractor who was making estimates for the water-proofing of the proposed building. The contractor admitted losing the plans, which he believed to have mislaid on the train, as they had been rolled up on the seat beside him during the trip. A warrant has been sworn out for John King, alias John Doe, but no trace of the culprit had been found up to late last night...
...overt act could be established. It was all picayune, absurd. The trio was released, though not without Secret Service men in train...