Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the campaign buttons of 1952 were bigger and flashier than ever before, almost nobody was wearing them but youngsters. There were Stevenson supporters among teen-agers-as one result last week the Eisenhower train rolled grandly from Sacramento to Oakland, Calif, plastered with Adlai stickers. But the noisiest single phenomenon of the campaign was the vociferous Ike worship which has gripped grade-school kids...
Leaving San Francisco, Ike transferred from train to plane. (Mamie, who does not stand altitude well, went on by rail, did some whistle-stopping of her own.) At Long Beach he tried a "prop stop." It worked well: more than 4,000 turned up at the airport. Said Ike: "The so-called professional politicians . . . told me there was one thing you could not do-go to an airport and address a group of American citizens. I was told they simply wouldn't come. So I find out today that . . . those political friends of mine were wrong...
...Haverhill thousands packed the square, but they were mostly school children. Above, on a bridge, was the railroad station, with microphones and a loud-speaker. A train whistle blew and the crowd cheered; it was the President's train. The five HLU'ers pushed their way to the front of the crowd and hoisted their placards. There were six signs, so they asked a small boy to hold one. The signs read: "Harvard's for Harry," "Because if Ike's Elected--," "Joe McCarthy for Attorney General," "Fred Hartley for Secretary of Labor," "Chiang Kai-Shek for Secretary of State," "John...
...train started and people left the square. "Look," said a teen-age girl pointing at the Joe McCarthy sign, "They're Republicans." "You know," said the first HLU'er, "these signs really don't make much sense. They were all right when Taft came, but they don't make much sense now." "Do you suppose Harry saw the signs. We were too near him," said the second. "I gave a policeman a note to give to Harry, asking him to our cocktail party. I asked him to give us his answer at Lawrence...
...Eisenhower party left its train at Milwaukee, Joe McCarthy gave reporters his opinion on Ike's performance in Wisconsin. Said he: "I am not displeased with the treatment. I thought General Eisenhower handled the situation pretty well." The Senator clearly was displeased with the fact that he had been assigned a seat in the sixth car in Ike's Milwaukee motorcade. Ignoring the assignment, McCarthy strode purposefully up to the car directly behind Eisenhower's and shouldered his way into...