Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Wheeling the Eisenhower special went southeastward across the Alleghenies to stop at Martinsburg, W.Va. Ike picked up a motorcade for a short circuit across western Maryland, reboarded his train at Frederick, rolled through the suburbs of Washington, then northward to Baltimore...
Next day the train swung south for Ike's second excursion into solid Democratic country. This time the candidate shied away from civil-rights issues, attacked the Administration but not the Democratic Party. The crowds were enthusiastic. In Salisbury, N.C., the train drew up for servicing at 6:45 a.m. Most of Ike's staff was sleeping, but Ike heard a clamor outside his car, ducked out in his bathrobe to greet some 50 railroad workers, women and youngsters. They called for Mamie, and in a moment she popped out in pink pajamas and dressing gown with...
After Richmond, the campaign train headed back to New York. There Ike stopped just long enough to catch his breath, then take off again on another tour which would range from Michigan to the West Coast...
...Train of the Future. "I proudly salute the gallant American fight in Korea . . . What I deplore in [the] cases of Berlin and Korea is this: the incompetence of political leaders which made military action necessary. Democracies cannot afford the luxury of assigning armies of soldiers to go around 'picking up' after their statesmen...
...Democratic candidate did last week, with the epigram that 'A wise man does not try to hurry history.' Every American knows the answer to that one. Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over...