Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S 20-odd correspondents who have been scouting their own and neighboring states for political news and trends, the campaign has been an exciting-if exhausting-tour of duty. Nowhere has this been so true as on that uniquely American phenomenon, the campaign train. Jolting in & out of whistle stops, gauging the temper of back-platform crowds, watching the suspense build up from hot August through cool October, and, in general, "trying to do a sitting-still job while moving," calls on all a reporter's resourcefulness, as well as his energies...
...House for TIME, joined Dwight Eisenhower when "he checked in his uniform June 3," has traveled more than 30,000 miles by air and about 18,000 miles by rail in the past 4½ months. He first flew to Kansas with the general, stayed with him on the train trip to Abilene. When TIME decided to do an Eisenhower cover story (June 16), Darby spoke to him in one of the rare private interviews the candidate has given. Darby continued to cover Eisenhower through the nominating campaign and the convention itself, and, except for two short breaks, has been...
...Business, through its control of both major parties, is expanding this country's "imperialist empire" at an "express train rate," said Vincent Hallinan, Progressive Party candidate for President in his speech to the Young Progressives in New Lecture Hall yesterday...
There was a traffic jam in the center of Lawrence. People seemed to flow down the streets to the train station, and the papers afterwards said there were 50,000 there. The HLU car was jammed between two others, and a policeman wouldn't let it pass. "The President's probably talking already," said the first HLU'er. "Let's get out of here, and go straight to Malden," said the second. "But he's going to give us his answer here," said the third. "And anyway this is his biggest speech. It will last half an hour...
...with him. "Let me introduce my biggest asset." Truman was beaming. "Margic, come here." Margaret waved. Then, one by one, the welcoming committee stopped up to the platform and shook hands with the President and his daughter. When they had finished, the two on the platform stood waving. The train didn't move. They fixed their faces into grins, and they stood there for ten minutes. "I like Ike, I like Ike, I LIKE IKE!" screeched a nine-year old, "Husb child, why do you shout that?" asked an old woman. "That's what they...