Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Need a Rudder." At the longer stops, where the candidate made full-dress speeches in auditoriums, the ritual was also unvarying. He swept from the train in a motorcade through mildly curious crowds, arriving at the hall on the dot, striding out on the stage just as the introducer boomed: "I give you the next President of the United States...
...Chicago, Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart appeared at 7 a.m. Wearing a cigar at a jaunty angle, trailed by a delegation of Indiana politicians which included the late Wendell Willkie's son, Philip, Homer stepped aboard the hushed train. A bodyguard barred the way to the Dewey bedroom. The candidate was not to be disturbed; he had set aside this morning for sleeping. The Victory Special rocked on into Indiana while Mr. Dewey slept on and Capehart and party huddled in car No. 3, an ordinary Pullman for miscellaneous visitors. Capehart was boiling. Not until three...
...Where's My Tommy?" Rensselaer is the home town of Congressman Charles Halleck, Majority Leader of the House, who had wanted very much to be Vice President. On the platform stood Charlie himself. He was not invited to board the train and he looked more disconsolate than usual when the candidate majestically appeared. But Charlie cheered up later when Mr. Dewey, making a speech at the town's little St. Joseph's College, referred to Congressman Halleck as "one of the oldest friends I have in public life." During the rest of the speech Charlie beamed, clapping...
...train rolled on to Jackson, Mich., where the power & glory of the state's Republicanism-Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Homer Ferguson, Governor Kim Sigler-appeared. So did Mrs. George Dewey, the candidate's mother, whom he calls "Mater." She cried.: "Where's my Tommy?" With one arm around Mater and one around his wife, the candidate stood on the rear platform. "Was there ever such a lucky man as I am?" he asked the train-side crowd. "I have a wonderful mother and a wonderful wife and they are both here with...
...would retire because of failing health (his last appearance in the Senate was May 27), wandered off his son's estate in East Islip, L.I. While police sent out an eight-state "missing" alarm, he gave an I.O.U. for a meal at a restaurant, borrowed $5 for train fare to Manhattan, was finally picked up in a Lexington Avenue restaurant. His doctor's diagnosis: temporary amnesia...