Word: train
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born: Enderlin, N.D. 1905. Father was a train dispatcher...
Meanwhile, Captain Tom Hamilton, athletic director at the University of Pittsburgh, who allegedly made Jordan the offer of the job while the two were going by train to Cincinnati, was also unavailable, although he was paged at a baseball banquet which he was supposed to be attending...
President Phil Murray of the C.I.O. Steelworkers climbed aboard an overnight train in Washington one evening last week, heading back to Pittsburgh and still grimly bent on a strike that would shut down U.S. steel production for at least a week. Just after the train pulled out, a White House telephone operator tried to get him at C.I.O. headquarters in the capital. The call finally reached Murray when he got to his Pittsburgh office next morning. Harry Truman and Phil Murray talked for several minutes. After they hung up, Murray consulted his policy committee and dispatched a terse telegram...
...plead his cause, mercurial Mossadegh was so ready with quips, anecdotes and laughter that Secretary Acheson thought the visitor should be reminded of the gravity of the situation. At a Blair House luncheon where Mossadegh was guest of honor, Acheson told a story: a wagon train, crossing the American West, was attacked by Indians. A rescue party found the wagons burned, and the corpses of the pioneers lying around them. The only man still alive lay under a wagon, with an arrow through his back. "Does it hurt?" he was asked. The dying man whispered: "Only when I laugh." Acheson...
Button, who has said that he has "absolutely no intention of turning pro," left by air on Thursday for Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, where he will train for the Olympics...