Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: The story goes that an old woman was interestedly engaged in examining the contents of her lunch basket when her train, suddenly and unexpectedly, rushed into a tunnel. She is reported to have thrown up her hands and cried "My God struck stone blind!" You can relate a similar experience to the American, who finds himself in Florence, Italy, deprived of your valued publication TIME- struck stone blind...
...Brotherhood of Railway Train men is not in the A. F. of L., backbones of which are the building and printing trades unions. And it was because, like West Virginia's Doak, James John Davis had shown sympathy for the employers' side of labor disputes, that the late great President Samuel Gompers of the A. F. of L. gave President Harding so much opposition in Mr. Davis' appointment in 1921. President Hoover decided to conciliate the A. F. of L. and its present President William Green...
...ought to know, as some time ago I wrote a railroad story which appeared in Collier's, and made the mistake of having an engineerman drive his train...
...place called Tu Mu (near Huai Lai-hsien) they waited five hours for a train only to find it a freight bursting with rebel soldiers retreating before the influx of troops from Manchuria. Minister Johnson climbed aboard, "rode the rods" to Kalgan, kept the soldiers in high Chinese glee by translating some of his more successful U. S. anecdotes...
...Hotel Ambassador through courtesy of the management, was in Bay Shore with his mother. Charles Victor Bob, missing mining promoter (TIME, Oct. 27), surrendered to the District Attorney of New York, related an Odyssey of wanderings which had taken him to Phoenix, Ariz., Los Angeles, Mexico City, by train, airplane and automobile in search of the Golden Fleece of new capital. Only when it was learned (last fortnight) that he was ready to surrender, was a warrant for his arrest actually issued. Criminal charges, civil suits, Federal prosecution face...