Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mackenzie King listened dutifully. By 1 p.m. he was lunching alone on shipboard on soup, roast beef, potatoes, cauliflower, ice cream, coffee. By mid-afternoon he was drinking tea, eating toast and jam on a special train bound for London. At 5:30 he was in London's Waterloo Station. Half an hour later he was on his way, by car, to the Chequers home of Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee. By Monday mid-morning bustling Mr. King was in his suite at London's Dorchester Hotel, laying out a schedule for the coming week...
...year-old girl reporter whom Joseph Pulitzer sent round the world in 1889, to see if she could beat Jules Verne's fictional Phileas Fogg, who took 80 days. She made it, by train and steamer...
...rdoba police ignored a writ of habeas corpus, shipped a college president off for Buenos Aires by train. Furious, the judge who had granted the writ overtook the train in a car, had the prisoner freed. In Buenos Aires, a Radical Party leader locked the arresting officer in a bathroom...
...Ranger radio program, he had not only been pictured as a common burglar and been suggested as responsible for turning a boy into a criminal, he complained, but "they had this Lone Ranger shootin' a gun out of my hand-and me an expert!" The onetime cattle-rustler, train-robber, killer (some dozen men by his own count), jailbird† (pardoned by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907), held the jury spellbound with tales of his early crimes, but earnestly denied that he had ever robbed a bank. "I don't know anything about burglary," he insisted...
...attract the 7,000 good doctors the VA needs for the next dozen years, General Hawley proposes to use the hospitals near teaching institutions (in Chicago, Boston, New York, etc.) as nuclei where experts can train younger fry. He thinks the VA must come to hiring professors and other experts on a part-time basis-since they could never be hired full-time at VA prices. He proposes a Medical Corps for the VA (instead of the present Civil Service), to make hiring & firing easy...