Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kansas. To get Vice President Curtis from Los Angeles to his Topeka home in time to vote, a fast Santa Fe train was rerouted through Kansas. Even so the Vice President had to get off at Dodge City and use an absentee ballot...
...Johnstown's alarmed citizens went the Baltimore & Ohio chief of police, direct from Mr. Willard on a mysterious mission. Mr. Willard, it was gathered, had seen President Hoover. The B. & 0. would provide trains to move the B. E. F. westward. Somehow the Federal Government would foot the bill. But no B. & O. train would be run east; in that direction on its line lay Washington. One noon a citizens committee called on Mayor McCloskey, told him of the B. & O.'s offer, induced him to use his hard-boiled political oratory...
...understood and liked such talk. That night the first B. & 0. train rolled west carrying 800 veterans, their wives and children. Next day two more chuffed off from the siding near the camp. With a brass band the Mayor was there to shake hands, kiss babies, distribute small change. The evacuation was well under way after ramshackle cars were given a free tank of gasoline and $1 to start them over the mountains...
...Ekman cabinet wanted to see old King Gustaf V in a hurry. The King was due in Stockholm from Solliden Castle the next day, but they could not wait that long. They commandeered three naval hydro planes, arrived at the castle as the King was preparing to leave. The train waited while King & Ministers talked behind closed doors. Finally the King emerged, followed by his ministers, and all entrained for Stockholm. There King Gustaf an nounced he had "accepted" Premier Ek man's resignation, that Finance Minister Hamrin would act as Premier until the general elections next month...
...preposterous that in Horse Feathers Groucho should be cast as a college president and Zeppo as an abnormally stupid undergraduate who has spent twelve years in one class. Zeppo is the only Marx who has enjoyed the advantages of a high school education. Mrs. Marx, eager to train her children for the stage, saved money for Chico's piano lessons. Soon he was able enough to play in cheap cinema theatres. Harpo, two years younger than Chico, looked exactly like him. He could play two tunes on the piano. They enabled him to defraud theatre managers who had hired...