Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President and Mrs. Coolidge took a special night train for Northampton, Mass. There they voted the Republican ticket; entrained forthwith for Washington...
...After leaving Winnipeg, Canada, Her Majesty's train recrossed the border to Minneapolis. There Queen Marie slipped away after her official reception to a little Rumanian church barely able to accommodate 100 people. Kneeling, she prayed and afterward conversed with members of the congregation in Rumanian...
...Majesty then set out across the plains of North Dakota. At Mandan she talked about babies jam-making with farmers' wives. At Medora Chief Red Tomahawk, he who had killed Sitting Bull, crowned Her Majesty Winyan Kipanki Win ("The Woman Who Was Waited For"). Said she as her train again snorted westward: "I have lived a whole lifetime of love today...
Landing at Shanghai, Colonel Thompson and his entourage sped to Peking without accident, saw there the blazing blue-tiled Temple of Heaven, and the Forbidden City, now moldering with decay. Returning to Shanghai, there to take ship for Japan, Colonel Thompson was informed that no sooner had his train passed the railway bridge just south of Nanking than it was dynamited, wrecking a subsequent train...
Though U. S. newsorgans headlined THOMPSON NEAR DEATH, it is exceedingly probable that the Chinese dynamiters could under no circumsances have been persuaded to blow up his train. They were spies of the Cantonese War Lord Chang Kaishek. Their intent was to cut off supplies from the Shanghai War Lord, Sun Chuan-feng. Well-informed of the movements of the Big White President's friend, they let him pass, mindful that his influence would bear directly upon whether the U. S. ever recognizes the Cantonese Government, recently extended by the conquests of Chang Kai-shek to include most of central...