Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train entered the outskirts of Vera Cruz, I saw two Mexican secret service men across the aisle watching my bunk. . . . I headed for the rear in my underwear as though I was going to wash. Then I slipped from the train and dressed under a box car. When I reached the American consulate I left my maps and went out to cable Mrs. Butler I was safe. . . . I learned later that they had spent two weeks dragging the bay as they felt sure I had fallen overboard. But I was restored to the Navy list and that ended that little...
...become a voter. Last week while "newcomers" were busy in court getting separated from their spouses, Reno's "oldtimers" went to the polls, re-elected Edwin Ewing Roberts, 61, as their Mayor for a third four-year term. Father-in-law of famed Baseballer Walter Perry ("Big Train") Johnson, and once (1910-19) a Republican Congressman, Mayor Roberts won 3,773 votes by his loud espousal of easy divorce, legalized gambling and free barrels of whiskey. For Howard Doyle, Reno's Chamber of Commerce president, 2,988 citizens, including a conservative reform element, cast their ballots. Milburn Gregory...
After communing with himself over night, Br'er Briand finally cast his die, accepted the nomination. At the same time he announced that whatever his status next week, whether he is president-elect of France or not, he would take train once more to sit in his accustomed seat on the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva. And he delivered a telling blast at the critics who blamed him for doing nothing to stop the Austro-German Zollverein...
...improve interurban and maritime transport, the Council of Labor and Defense made two important rulings last week. At present important Russian trains arrive at their destinations from two to 24 hours late. The Council decreed that in future the pay of locomotive engineers would be docked for lateness, that all train crews would be paid on a piecework basis. All train crews must run 1,125 miles or 192 hours each 30 days. If the average is less than that, pay is docked: if it is more, pay is increased...
...Harvard Club of Boston is planning a special train for the Harvard Army football game next fall scheduled for October 17. The train will go to New York after the game...