Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special train took the Speaker home to Cincinnati. Into ivy-clad "Rookwood," the old-fashioned family residence on a green knoll, was carried the grey casket. Waiting there was Mrs. Longworth's stepmother, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. Also there was a little girl with flaxen curls. Paulina could hardly understand when Mother took her in her arms, told her gently that Father was dead. ... To the house came the President of the U. S. who bowed his head and moved his lips silently. Also came the Vice President,* members of the Cabinet, a dozen Senators, nearly 100 members...
...were: a priest from Notre Dame University on his way to a dentist appointment: a horsey Kentuckian on his way to a race track; an unemployed plumber; a railway switchman; the wife of a packing company official come to town to do some shopping. And, about to take a train to Washington Park race course was Alfred ("Jake") Lingle. "leg man" (newsgatherer but not writer) for the Chicago Tribune, a newspaper man with racketeering side interests. Just after he bought a newspaper and entered the tunnel, some one in the human current moved up behind him, stuck a sawed...
Because of Lady Bessborough's frail health, the special train of the Governor General proceeded by fits & starts from Halifax to Ottawa (958 miles), halting at sundown, speeding...
Emergency meetings of the Red Cross were held in Washington. Ernest J. Swift, who had charge of Red Cross relief work in the Santo Domingo hurricane last fall (TIME, Sept. 15, 22), took the first train to Miami, flew in a Pan American plane to Managua, took charge of all emergency feeding stations...
Westchester County's greatest booster and the man who erected the signs is Eugene O'Reilly, whose earthly home is Jersey City, N. J. Owner of 50 Westchester acres, he goes to look at his property once a week, always finds someone on the train to talk to about his favorite subject: Westchester. He writes letters in his spare time. Among those who have heard from him about Westchester during the past 25 years are: all the Senators, all the Governors, all Cabinet members; the mayors of every U. S. town of more than 25,000 population...