Word: train
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quickest, sharpest G. 0. P. answer to Nominee Smith's farmstorming tour was emitted by Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, official Hooverizer of the East. Quoth he: "The ploughboy of the Eastern world goes West in a $1,000,000 special train to carry relief to the harassed farmers of that section. His remedy consists of a plea to give him a chance. His promise consists in a pledge to appoint a commission to tell him what...
...retort to the Denver Smith speech, Senator Moses said: "Mr. Facing-Both-Ways has again descended from his eleven-car million-dollar special train to spread light and learning in those sections of the country which are unaccustomed to the effulgence of the Brown Derby. ... He misrepresents, distorts, bisects sentences and employs periphrastic phrases to make his points. . . . The candidate neglects to say that three of his own chief financial backers in this campaign-Messrs. Young, Brady and Ryan-are also leaders of the power trust...
...Cincinnati, Senator Borah pointed to Democratic Chairman Raskob, multimillionaire, and to the Smith campaign train, as evidences of that Prosperity, the existence of which some Democrats have disputed...
Through Indiana and Illinois, into Iowa, rolled the Curtis campaign train. Swart and smiling, Nominee Curtis made 14 speeches in one day. He reiterated the virtues of protective tariff, of the Republican record on farm relief. At Spencer, Iowa, a heckler cried: "How did you vote on the McNary-Haugen bill...
...MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN−Agatha Christie−Dodd, Mead...