Word: trained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dropping four members of his Cabinet, the President boarded his special train, started West. G. O. P. Chairman Simeon Davison Fess was ordered back to Washington lest his presence give the President's trip the appearance of a political junket. Postmaster General Brown, however, was permitted to go along. Outside Altoona the train was run off on a siding at Mule Shoe Bend, high among the mountains. Ties were lashed to the tracks to keep it from rolling; switches were spiked; the President slept seven quiet hours...
...clock next morning he demanded newspapers, found he could not get them there. He was in black bear country. When the train reached Alliance, Ohio, Republican Senator Roscoe Conkling McCulloch, up for election, boarded it, rode along with the President where everybody could see him. At Bedford the train stopped again to take on Mrs. Hoover, fresh from a Girl Scout convention at Indianapolis (see col. 3). President Hoover took her in his arms, greeted her with a kiss on the rear platform...
...From experiences in many lands I have sometimes compared some of these systems to a race. In the American system ... we train the runners, we strive to give to them an equal start, our government is the umpire. . . . Socialism or its violent brother, Bolshevism, would compel all the runners to end the race equally; it would hold the swiftest to the speed of the most backward. Anarchy would provide neither training nor umpire. Despotism or class government picks those who run and also those...
Landing at Puerto Barrios on the Caribbean, the pair made their way by train through the humid tropic zone of the Atlantic slope, on their way to the capital, Guatemala City. In their journey they were assisted throughout their stay by the officials of the United Fruit Company, who did everything to forward their researches...
...train then begins a steady rise, and in the space of 30 miles has attained an altitude of thousands of feet, in a country creased by gorges and ravines, where the capital, Guatemala City, is located. A distinctly different fauna inhabits this part of the country...