Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning the second half year, a course will be given by the Geography School for graduates, to train men in radio communication. It will deal with the use of portable equipment for field stations in connection with the Harvard station...
...special train to Paris the Premier described these obligations as "audacious measures of rapprochement with Germany." His first act in the Capital, apart from the necessary call of respect on President Paul Doumer, was to get in touch with German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch. As fast as possible the two statesmen will elaborate plans for Germany to take the "initiative" toward an extension of the Hoover One-Year Moratorium or some actual cancellation of Reparations and War Debts which President Hoover and Premier Laval agreed Germany must take (TIME, June 29). "President Hoover stressed and I agree," declared bubbling, vigorous...
...lodged in her windpipe. She choked. Her father called his physician; he could do nothing. Slowly Marjorie was choking to death. The only hope of saving her life was an operation with the bronchoscope developed by Dr. Chevalier Jackson of Philadelphia. Father Cohen carried his daughter aboard a fast train for Philadelphia...
Next morning Marjorie was gasping for breath. A doctor boarded the train at Richmond, gave her little more than an hour to live. Father Cohen wired for an airplane at Washington. An ambulance & motorcycle escort met the train at Union Station, rushed through the city to the airport. Pilot V. J. Lucas had a plane warmed up. He took off, opened the throttle, headed for Camden Airport. Sixty-two minutes later he landed dangerously in a headwind. Still breathing, Marjorie was carried by ambulance to Jefferson Hospital. Surgeons were ready. An hour later the bean was removed. Father Cohen...
...fast-moving Rock Island freight train near Martell, Neb., Hobo Sam Wilson walked in his sleep, walked through the door of a box car, landed on his feet...