Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boarding a special train last week in Washington with Postmaster General Farley and Senator Glass, President Roosevelt swung down the Southern Ry.'s main line through central Virginia. Governor Peery was picked up as the special passed through Senator Glass's Lynchburg and by the time lunch was over the Presidential party was at Roanoke...
...appointment-of-the-week which did not come off was that of President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago to be NRA's chief enforcement officer. Young Mr. Hutchins took train in Chicago, went to Washington, was closeted with the President. Then, just as abruptly, Mr. Hutchins entrained for Chicago again. Observers guessed that either Mr. Hutchins had at the last minute, decided to stick to the University of Chicago or that NRA officials had snuffed his appointment...
...even this order from the Kremlin could check Moscow's subway planic. The original plan demanded that last week the first train should run over the first mile and a half of Moscow's subway, and run it did, through a chaos of unfinished stations and propped-up tunnel walls...
Consisting of two Russian-built cars patterned on those in Manhattan's subway, the "first train," said Associated Press Correspondent Charles Stephenson Smith, "was hailed with great joy by a population eagerly awaiting relief from overcrowded surface transportation...
...months or years before Moscovites can actually ride on a subway complete with stations, tickets and all such necessaries. But last week the 70,000 Moscow subway builders, fired with frantic zeal, pledged themselves not to slow down, vowed that next January a train shall run over the entire seven-mile underground line as demanded by the original plan...