Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Issuing a challenge to Nominee Roosevelt to confirm or deny his son James's intimation last fortnight that he intended to revive NRA, Nominee Landon rolled on to California. Detraining at Pasadena with Governor Frank Merriam, who had boarded his train earlier, he was met by a cheering crowd, bundled into an automobile to ride to Los Angeles. Shocking was his reception by that pro-Roosevelt city. On the outskirts a group of WPA workers leaned on their shovels, booed lustily as he passed. As his car continued down crowded Broadway the boos swelled into a great, derisive roar...
...Paso, Tex. a physician boarded the train, ordered Nominee Landon to bed to save his throat for important speeches. Thereafter members of his party pinch hit before disappointed station crowds along the way, explaining that the Nominee was busy and "very tired." After a day of that. Alf Landon allowed them to reveal the real reason for his nonappearance...
...Onto his train at El Reno, immaculate in blue and with bristly hair well brushed, climbed Oklahoma's gaunt, rustic William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, who had promised to introduce him at Oklahoma City. Arrived at their destination, the onetime Democratic Governor and the Republican Nominee stepped off the train arm in arm. Alf Landon's throat was scarf-wound against the cold and for further protection he was bundled into a closed car for the drive to the hotel. Friends offered the closed car as explanation of the appalling scene which followed. As Nominee Landon passed through...
...anything in the glare of publicity which he has not previously arranged in private, and last week Baron von Neurath and Count Ciano merely went over in Berlin the understandings to which Italy and Germany have come in recent weeks, more or less secretly. A special sleeping-car train then took them to Berchtesgaden, whence they drove to the chalet Haus Wachenfeld, the Bavarian snuggery of Der Führer. Corporal Hitler, in a plain brown tunic with a large swastika just above the left elbow, saluted General Ciano who returned the salute. They talked for four hours. Simultaneously...
With word that various Princeton Wayfarers were forced to return to New Jersey by train instead of the Cape Cod and Raritan Canal route for which they had paid passage, the tentacles of the west coast shipping strike reach far and wide. Labor disputes are tolerable only so long as they keep on the private battle ground between employer and employee. For the minute the public welfare is put in jeopardy, as occurred in an San Francisco two summers ago, the strike inevitably topples over with the weight of popular disfavor, and both management and labor lose the gains that...