Word: traine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, Governor Warren got news that sent him rushing back to California by plane, leaving his family to follow by train. Burly, rock-jawed Lieut. Governor Goodwin Knight, 52, who would become governor if Warren is elected* had been suddenly hospitalized, was "seriously ill" with a perforated ulcer. A good-natured, back-slapping politico, Knight is averse to making any decisions in Warren's absence, even when he is well. The Governor thought he had better get back to his state...
After a night at the White House, and one at Blair House, Venezuela's Gallegos (along with 200 guests and newsmen) boarded Harry Truman's special train for Bolivar, Missouri. There, this week, with parades, pageantry and protestations of mutual esteem, the two Presidents were to unveil a seven-foot monument to South American Liberator...
Affable & Neighborly. That afternoon the Dewey family left on a special train for their farm near Pawling, N.Y. En route, Tom Dewey chatted with newsmen ; they had never seen him so affable. At Pawling (pop. 1,400), to a crowd of 3,000, he said: "This village is my home . . . Here we have the charity and open-mindedness . . . that I earnestly hope to bring to our Government . . . You are the most wonderful neighbors...
...poor health, I am very glad and thankful when my dear overseas friends send a CARE package to me. Perhaps you also could help me by such a parcel." Gus, who once knew Ferdinand's railroad-crazy late son Boris (he once sent Boris a streamlined model electric train and got a diamond stickpin and 16 bottles of rare Bulgarian wine in return), promptly sent a CARE package on its way to papa Ferdinand in Coburg, Germany...
...night last week the speedy auto-rail train which links Paris with the rubber-manufacturing city of Clermont-Ferrand ground to an unscheduled stop five miles short of its destination. Surprised passengers stumbled over luggage piles into waiting buses and heard a guard explain: "The station at Clermont-Ferrand is in the hands of Communists." The "Akron of France" had become the scene of France's bloodiest battle since liberation...