Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Taft had steam up. Last week, with Congress just about ready to quit, he pulled the whistle. This week the Taft campaign train would begin to roll, and Ohio's plugging Senator would be off on what he hoped was the right track to the Republican presidential nomination...
...anyone did not know the makeup of the train, it was not the fault of Engineer Taft. He had put it together in the yards of the 80th Congress, where virtually every piece of major legislation had been given his boost or his boot. Frankly, loudly, obstinately and often, he had declared his stand. Some of his views (his opposition to David Lilienthal, to universal military training, to the State Department's Voice of America) had brought a storm of criticism. Other views (on the labor act, on tax-cutting) had won him both praise and condemnation. But nobody...
...Taft train began to chuff, Taft and his campaign strategists breathed nothing but confidence...
Brave Heart. The Dewey train was homeward bound. Optimism filled the eastbound streamliner. Said the Governor: "I think I re-established my roots in the West...
Under the direction of Boris Goldovsky, famed lecturer and concert planist whose knowledge of operate technique is well known, to his Saturday afternoon radio audiences. Tanglewood is offering a unique chance for young conductors and directors to train. "If a pianist needs a piano to practice, how can one expect an opera director to learn without actors!" explains the cherubic Goldovsky. Equipped as he is with a large group of competent student singers, he is able to give his embryo conductors and directors their necessary workouts...