Word: trained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been ten times as much, so as to teach New York police officers to be more careful in making arrests. Whenever I go into the city I do not know whether or not I'll get out again without being arrested. As a result I take the first train out into the country again that...
...letter told that Trotsky's departure on the day scheduled was prevented by 10,000 sympathizers who bought tickets at the station from which he was scheduled to leave Moscow and then stood like a herd of cows upon the tracks so that his train could not leave. Next day 47 sympathizers were arrested for loitering near his house. Finally, continues the letter: "The police agents threatened to take Trotsky [from his house] by force. . . . Trotsky refused to go. The police picked up his overcoat and began to force him into it. His wife tried to communicate with somebody...
...placed in a compartment with two soldiers on guard. On the road he fell sick. At Samara they took him from the train in a serious condition and doctors were summoned. That is all we know. That is really how it happened...
Cabled despatches, possibly tampered with by the Soviet Censor, have uniformly declared that Trotsky left Moscow in the passive presence of a crowd which merely collected at the station, sang Communist songs, and wailed, "Oh how sad!" as his train chuffed...
...Presidential Train of Old Paul von Hindenburg rolled into Berlin, last week, with its heating apparatus most unfortunately not functioning. The honored passengers were Their Majesties the Amir & Queen of Afghanistan who, with almost their entire suite, appeared to be suffering from colds. They arrived from Caux, Swiss-Alpine resort, where they have been recuperating from previous official entertainment at Rome, Paris & Brussels (TIME, Jan. 23, Feb. 6). Last week as Amir Amanullah, ''The Light of the World," emerged again into the limelight he was gravely greeted by the solemn figure of President Hindenburg in tight broadcloth coat...