Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting disbanded at 12:35. Off went Professor Moley of the Roosevelt "brain trust" to assemble preliminary data in the State and Treasury Departments for his chief. Secretary Stimson vanished to summon Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador, tell him what had happened. On the train taking him South, the President-elect reflected with satisfaction on the Red Room conference. It was not up to him and his incoming Congress to see that, in the event the British burden of $4,398,000,000 indebtedness is eased, the U. S. would receive some compensating advantages. Possible bargains which...
...When the train is running, the same three short blasts mean that the engineer has understood the signal to stop at the next station. Other important whistle-signals: Two long blasts, two short: approaching a highway crossing; three long blasts: train in motion has parted; one short blast: apply all brakes...
...Winifred Spooner and more than 1,000 others in England & Wales within the week. Southampton, Birmingham, Glasgow, London suffered severely. London had 1,100 postal workers sick abed. Leeds curtailed its street car service and could not get its gas meters read. A London bride with a 30-ft. train to her gown lost, at the last hour, a bridesmaid. At Oxford a coroners' jury could not determine the cause of a violent death because all the jurymen and most of the witnesses had influenza. At Whittingham bailiffs were obliged to hunt substitutes for the police magistrates...
...Worcester, Mass. A grimy New England manufacturing town, it has a great many traffic lights, quick-lunchrooms and overhead trolley wires. Yet shepherded by none less than the newly created Joseph, Baron Duveen of Millbank, 150 critics, painters, art dealers, collectors, reporters, pressagents and others piled into a special train at New York's Grand Central Station last week bound for Worcester...
Hotel at Coral Gables and has bathed it in the same sort of publicity which enabled one-man Henry L. Doherty & Co. to sell Cities Service securities to half a million people. From Manhattan the Florida Year-Round Club's special train runs weekly to the hotel with an orchestra, a gymnasium, a miniature pool for pretty girls in bathing suits, a hostess, a bridge professional. Some sport event is scheduled for almost every day of the season. Fortnight ago Oilman Doherty watched the best girl swimmers of the land. Last week he was official host...