Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left the train at Superior and was driven through the streets in the middle of a small parade of American Legionnaires and police. He reached Cedar Island Lodge on the Brule River, 35 miles away, shortly before noon. Mrs. Coolidge appeared at the lodge 40 minutes later, having stayed on the train until it reached a place called Winneboujou, in order to avoid a long automobile ride...
...Quinlans, Whealans) are a legacy from Boss Roger Sullivan. Says Brennan: "The job of boss was a big jackpot. I happened to be the only man around the table who had openers." Once, also, he was the only man present in an emergency when two cars of a moving train had to be uncoupled, a distinction which cost him a leg. Watching him stump cheerily about the hall, coralling his Cook County forces, delegates reserve their sympathy for Oklahoma's Gore, who lost both eyes as a child, one by a playmate's stick, the other...
Secretary Mellon had descended from his train nervously, shyly, and hurried to shut himself in a hotel suite. He was clinging to his maxim, "There's luck in leisure." Also, obviously, he was under great pressure to draft President Coolidge if possible. He had learned, or accepted, nothing final before leaving Washington.* He still sought conference with other leaders before speaking...
...significant incident in this connection last week, was the wreck of an express train near Nuremberg. "Due to worn and obsolete equipment" ran the verdict; and railway officials hastened to point out that new equipment cannot be bought unless the fare increases advised by Mr. Gilbert are granted. Since 25 passengers on the wrecked train were killed, the lesson taught by Death seemed likely to sink...
...182.Of Tientsin's former militarist masters the last to evacuate was blunt, bearish Marshal Chang* Tsung-chang, notorious during the present Civil War for his ruthless cruelty (TIME, March 7, 1927). As Chang's armored train pulled out for Manchuria, he growled to correspondents: "I won't answer questions! How should I know how many men I've got left, or how much money I've got left, or how many wives I've got left...