Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frontier Days drew all the West's best cowhands for five days of hard competition. Governor William Adams, onetime cowboy, went up from Colorado to watch the fun. Publisher Frederick Bonfils of the Denver Post, last great frontier pub publisher, took 400 guests to Cheyenne in a special train. There were pep and parades, noise and nonsense, music and merrymaking...
...Barlow gave up her summer vacation so that Arthur Barlow might attend properly accoutered in topper, frock coat and high button shoes. "I wish my wife could have gone too," said he last week, "she would have enjoyed it so much. I saw tears in her eyes as my train left Derby...
...fact that on the basis of its fundamental principles, it will not consider as legally obligatory on itself any fresh obligations which may be assumed toward France." Schmitz. Back from London came Brüning with nothing lost, little accomplished. Mindful of the Erzberger warning, he slipped off the train at a Berlin suburban station early in the morning, motored unobserved to President Hindenburg's palace on the Wilhelmstrasse. With him was a man who had been present at every conference in London, saying little, unnoticed by British reporters: white-haired, pleasant-faced Hermann Schmitz, Germany's emergency...
...week later he was telephoned by a man he had known in Pittsburgh and who had been trying to find him. By sheerest chance this man met Selznick's sister-in-law on a train to Pittsburgh. The man wanted Selznick to sell some stock in Universal pictures. Selznick sold the stock to Carl Laemmle, using a handful of diamonds left over from his store as an entering wedge. The stock gave Laemmle control of Universal and he gave Selznick a desk in the office. Selznick had a sign made which said "General Manager...
...Mexico City Albert Medrano, who had tried to commit suicide by: throwing himself under a train (but was prevented); shooting himself in the head (but the pistol failed); asphyxiation (but relatives broke in); drowning (but he was hauled out of the river); hanging (but he was cut down), made one more attempt. He climbed to the roof of his house, jumped off, died of heart failure...