Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Grunewald pal was George Schoeneman, then commissioner of Internal Revenue. Schoeneman introduced Grunewald to Charles Oliphant, then the Revenue Bureau's chief counsel. They became fast friends; Grunewald gave Oliphant a $600 television set, two $200 room air-conditioning units for his house, an electric train for his children. Said Grunewald: "I'd call him up and say, 'Charlie, you happen to be busy right now?' And he would say he wasn't, so I'd go over and we'd have a talk." About what? "Anything," said Grunewald, "except we never...
...border patrol has taken to jeeps, guided by an eleven-plane air force, in an effort to stem the tide; it has instituted roadblocks, train searches, and patient patrols in ranch country through the four border states. The wetbacks remain undiscouraged. A good many, smartened up by experience, now try to go as far north as Chicago, Detroit, Toledo, or the apple orchards of Washington and Oregon. Once beyond the patrol's real sphere of activity, a lucky Mexican can live and work for months or years without detection...
...Contamination. Meanwhile, some 500 enemy prisoners, brought up by train from Pusan, were being handed over at Panmunjom to the Communists, who had set up eight large white tents and seven smaller ones to receive them. Among these there had been some disturbances-apparently a last attempt to throw mud on the U.N. A group of Chinese, most of them pitiful cripples, had momentarily refused to disembark from an LST at Pusan...
Others of the Red returnees had ripped their new clothing, slashed tarpaulins on trucks, refused to eat, thrown away soap, cigarettes and toothpaste wrapped in Red propaganda. But on the train a group of Chinese behaved well and even thanked the U.S. car commander for kind treatment. At Panmunjom the delivery was orderly, as the Communist prisoners vanished from the free world...
...Committee. He managed to stay out of the bitter nomination battle .between Taft and Eisenhower, bustled around the convention hall in Chicago wearing one of those buttons proclaiming: "I like everybody." When the balloting came, he liked Ike. later became a key figure making arrangements on the Eisenhower campaign train. He has resigned his $30,000-a-year judgeship, will serve the G.O.P. without...