Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there ballot boxes on the Freedom Train...
...colored folks vote on the Freedom Train...
Everybody's got a right to board the Freedom Train...
Last week the U.S. Communist Party itself threw boulders across the track. It cooked up a ludicrous counter-propaganda scheme. The Commies could hardly come out and say they were against the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. Nor could they attack such backers of the train as Phil Murray, Bill Green or the Girl Scouts. So, in a memo from the party's educational headquarters, district leaders were instructed to tell whoever would listen that the "key backers" of the Freedom Train are "reactionary big businessmen" with a "demagogic purpose." Leaders were told to organize tours through...
...Taft-Hartley Act would be an issue in the campaign. The newsmen in the special cars read that statement in Chicago, uttered wounded cries about being scooped, piled out, found Taft at the Union League Club and got interviews of their own. The Senator got on a fast train after that, beat the newsmen to the coast by twelve hours. He had time to attend an outdoor steak dinner in a redwood grove, and to have a private chat with California's G.O.P. Governor Earl Warren...