Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Rapidan camp he motored to Martinsburg, W. Va., boarded a special train. Only his immediate staff was with him. So anxious was the President to avoid being caught up and delayed by Legion ceremonies that he had the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. slow up the train as it neared Detroit. With hardly a moment to spare, he arrived shortly after 11 a. m., drove immediately to Olympia Arena through yowling crowds, stepped up on the rostrum and with many a decisive shake of his square head gravely told the American Legion what he expected of it. Excerpts...
...pagoda on Bow Street is very handy to the Cambridge Gas and Electric Light Company (Plympton Street elevation) and to the First National Bank of Adams House. But the Vagabond dislikes the sound of riveters. He tossed a coin. When it rolled down the sewer he took the first train for the New Hampshire hills and spent the afternoon wondering if telegraphically transmitted copy would be full of errors. It seems...
...Lyons someone presented him with a goat, which was promptly placed in the baggage car. The special train reached Paris at 6 a. m. Even at that hour at least 500 people were waiting outside a police cordon for a sight of the Saint. The Mahatma emerged briefly and remarked that Paris looked much the same as it had when first he saw it 40 years...
...good little man with a drooping mustache, a little round head and a little round stomach was moving across Manchuria last week in a bright yellow private car, with a brand new contract in his baggage. Every time the train stopped hundreds of devout Chinese banged their heads against the sides, the window panes, the brake rods, hoping to receive virtue through their bumps. The good little man was the Panchen Lama who has sometimes been called the Buddhist Pope.* His contract was with the Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek to become a public relations counselor to fight...
...University of California (Berkeley, Calif.) reported that trade and vocational night schools in the vicinity were calling for more teachers than could be supplied. Immediately the University started a night course to train male & female vocational teachers for fulltime positions. Said Benjamin E. Mallary of the Division of Vocational Education: "Unemployment creates an interest among workers in self-improvement. . . . This situation is furthered also by the recent legislative act which requires unemployed minors of school age to attend classes...