Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note in TIME, Sept. 19, an account of next-President Roosevelt's junket to the West and the remark that "Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley, head of the 'brain trust' which supplies the Governor with economic data," was on the campaign train. I studied political science under Professor Moley at Columbia some eight years ago and thought him shrewd, honest, fearless. His work as head of the Cleveland crime commission (about 1923) brought him wide fame and the attention of a number of Cleveland thugs who waylaid him one night, fortunately without too serious results, because...
...first time since his speech of acceptance in August, Herbert Hoover stepped briefly outside his role of President of the U. S. last week to become a Republican nominee actively seeking reelection. In Washington with Mrs. Hoover and his usual retinue he boarded a Pennsylvania R. R. special train, all spick & span with new paint. It looked like rain. Two raincoats were put aboard his private car for rear platform appearances. Ahead of the special ran a pilot locomotive over rails carefully inspected a few hours before, over switches spiked down hard. In his car Candidate Hoover touched...
Governor Roosevelt continued to keep the country guessing as to his position. The Republican Press, swearing that the Bonus could not be straddled, flayed his silence as cowardly evasion. When newshawks on his special train asked him bluntly where he stood or when he would speak out one way or the other, the Democratic nominee waggled a playful finger at them and smilingly replied: "That's a secret...
Chicago Democrats had their orders from their mayor and boss, Anton Cermak. when Governor Roosevelt's train rolled into Union Station at 9 p. m. Two hundred thousand of them from every city ward were on hand. Like ghosts from the last century, they staged a torchlight parade, with oilcloth capes and kerosene flambeaux on long poles. Men in linen dusters carried red fireballs aloft. Bands blared, whistles shrieked, sidewalk crowds roared. It took Governor Roosevelt, in a huge white touring car, 45 minutes to edge his way seven blocks through the human pack to his hotel. Not for years...
...Leviathan and into barges. Those who are now rowing in the barges will undoubtedly be transferred to shells and the better portions of the Leviathan's crew will advance to the seats vacated by the barge men. While a few novices will still remain in the training ship it is hoped to have them all out by the next few weeks in time to train for the races...