Word: train
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cast care away and carol along on the Carawan" cry the Associated Harvard Clubs, "a special stream-lined deluxe train, a whole Harvard train for whole Harvard men painted CRIMSON (inside and out)." Whereupon Harvard graduates are sent careening down to New Orleans for their forty-second annual meeting. What could be nicer...
...white flags from the tallest buildings and the Franco troops had taken possession, 6,500 truckloads of food for half-starved inhabitants began to roll into Madrid. New Franco money (the old Loyalist paper money was declared valueless) arrived by carloads to be exchanged for pre-war currency. Direct train service between the capital and Saragossa was restored after nearly three years. Sandbags piled up in front of buildings on the Gran Via were removed, shutters were pulled up, temporary boarding was torn down. The rooms of hotels long considered unsafe because of artillery fire were reopened. Barricades which...
...Train Leaves Wednesday...
Most of the official party, with members of the Harvard Club of Boston, will leave here on a special car on Wednesday noon for Chicago. New Yorkers will join the group in Albany, and other alumni will join the train en route to Chicago...
Other groups from St. Louis and Indianapolis will join the special Harvard train which leaves Chicago Thursday noon and arrives in New Orleans Friday morning...