Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beautiful capitol you have," said President Coolidge to Governor William J. Bulow of South Dakota as he and Mrs. Coolidge inspected the capitol building at Pierre, S. D., the only western city besides Hammond, Ind., in which the presidential party left the train. Trucks crowded with cameramen flanked the motor car in which the President and the Governor headed the procession through Pierre streets, snapped...
Into the Central Station at Warsaw glided a long sleeping -car train from Berlin. It bore Comrade* A. P. Rosengolz, expelled Soviet Charge d'Affaires to Great Britain, who was en route last week back to Moscow (TIME, May 13). Stepping from the train, M. Rosengolz was greeted warmly by Comrade Peter Lazarevitch Vojkov, Soviet Minister to Poland, very generally believed to be an official who signed the death warrants of the late Tsar Nicholas II and his family. Arm in arm, the two Comrades entered the station buffet, ordered tall glasses of steaming tea. The train would wait...
Into the hamlet of Ruiz, State of Nayarit, there glided to a stop last week a funeral train from Los Angeles, Calif., and the Presidential Special from Mexico City. Deft, the engineers of these trains brought them to a halt in such a way that the salon car in which rode President Plutarco Elias Calles came to rest exactly opposite the funeral car in which the body of his late wife had been brought from Los Angeles, guarded by the President's trusted friend, onetime President Alvaro Obregon (TIME, June 13). The President and one-armed Veteran Fighter Obregon...
...Mexico City next morning a huge crowd awaited the bier of Señora Calles which was transferred from the train to a hearse by members of the Cabinet and high army officers. President Calles entered his limousine, which followed the hearse at a walking pace as it passed along the magnificent Paseo de la Reforma, a tree-lined boulevard extending in an absolutely straight line for over a mile from the centre of the City to Grasshopper Hill...
When term classes ended last week for students of Holy Cross, Jesuit college at Worcester, Mass., a gentle-faced German student hastened to the train that would start him toward Germany. He was Anton Lang II, second son of the able Christus of the Passion Players of Oberammergau (see p. 19). At Holy Cross, Anton II had proved himself able (high marks) and entertaining (violinist with the musical clubs...