Word: train
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in the '70s my mother was going through Missouri when the train stopped at a little town. A small, countrified looking woman got on and took the seat in front of her. The conductor, taking tickets, stopped at her seat but she looked straight ahead. "Your ticket, madam," he said. She replied, "I have no ticket." He asked, "Your pass, then?" She looked him in the eyes as she held up the stump of an arm and answered, "This is my pass." The conductor took another look and kept on going. It was Jesse James's mother...
Last week the U. S. Army Air Corps confronted the possibility that it also might have to train and commission Negro pilots. This prospect (awful to the all-white corps) loomed after the Senate passed the $366,250,000 rearmament authorization bill (TIME, March 13). Besides upping the authorized strength of the Air Corps to 6,000 planes, the Senate, at the behest of Wyoming's Harry H. Schwartz, voted to train Negroes in at least one school for Army fledglings. Behind Mr. Schwartz were flower-tongued Negro Edgar G. Brown of United Government Employes, Inc., Editor Robert...
...Millerand quit under political pressure. Jules Grévy tried a second term, left when his son-in-law was caught trafficking in Legion of Honor decorations. Casimir Périer got disgusted with his job. Paul Deschanel went crazy, tried to commit suicide by jumping out of a train, resigned. Two were assassinated: Sadi Carnot by an Italian anarchist in 1894, Paul Doumer by a Russian in 1932. Félix Faure died a natural death in office...
...Sarte. If Queen Mary cannot take Duchess Wally, it is a safe bet that Queen Victoria could not have. The Victoria bust will be unveiled next month. Biarritz's mayor explained that the reason for the tribute was that in 1889 Queen Victoria visited Biarritz, and in her train came a flood of tourists which is still flowing...
...student junketeers had tea with Eleanor Roosevelt, kissed (without relish) Congressmen and Vice President Garner, and danced with the newspaper correspondents' corps, the diplomatic corps and students of three local universities. Next day they hurried on to Annapolis to dance with the midshipmen, then, after their train had been delayed 17 minutes by one tardy dancer, pushed on to West Point. They liked West Point better than Annapolis because it provided two cadets for each girl...