Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbus, Ohio occurred when I was living in my own home, a very handsomely built house, but thank God far away from the flood and on the highest point of the city. For five days we were in total darkness except for candles. My son was on the last train coming in to Columbus and looking back saw the bridge break in two pieces and drift away. We saw plenty of misery and people went crazy in the streets. I could write a book of all the tragedies. I go to the R. C. A. Building to see many radio...
...absence, flouted his wishes by overriding his pension veto, by taxing Philippine coconut oil, by threatening to remonetize silver (see p. 14), by extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange bill. When Franklin Roosevelt-after a long conference with General Johnson and NRA Counsel Richberg aboard his train coming from Miami-drew into Washington's Union Station, he was surprised to hear the stentorian trumpets of the Marine Band playing "Happy Days Are Here Again" and William Woodwin's "The Franklin D. Roosevelt March," to see the smiling faces of 200 eager Representatives and 30 Senators. Hale and bronzed...
...heart of Kentucky's bluegrass lands, 30 mi. west of Paris and 10 mi. north of Versailles, is Spring Station. Fifteen people live there. It is 600 mi. to the nearest track of the Southern Pacific R. R. The Louisville & Nashville railroad runs through Spring Station but no trains stop except on flag. Last week a train did stop and out of a private car stepped 15 directors and employes of the Southern Pacific Co. They marched into a one-room brick building. There in a space 25 by 25 ft. the two-billion-dollar railroad system held...
...official duties yesterday. Led by a reception committee composed of Speaker Rainey and Representatives Snell, Englebright, Byrns and Greenwood the members of the Democratic party--loyal men and true--joined with members of the opposition to extend the glad hand of welcome to their President. A delegation boarded the train to assure him of their joy at his safe return, of their continued support and of their allegiance to the principles for which he stood. The occasion was further enhanced by the presence of the Marine Band which attempted to express the same happy sentiments in an even more vociferous...
...treating; non-ferrous metals and alloys; copper, tin, nickel, lead, zinc, aluminum, etc., I have come in contact with many products and processes. In spite of the depression, there is marked activity in research work, and as there is activity in this field, then this is the one to train students to enter, instead of in the already overcrowded ones...