Word: trained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Freedom Train has the Department of Justice as its official sponsor, it is being run and paid for by the American Heritage Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization backed by such diverse groups as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the C.I.O., the A.F.L., the Loyal Order of Moose and the Girl Scouts. Estimated cost of the Freedom Train's tour: $900,000 (of which only $300,000 has yet been raised...
...train's backers might well have assumed that their project would be as free of criticism as the Barnum & Bailey Circus. But no; the attacks had already begun. Michigan's Congressman Clare E. Hoffman, a hard-shelled, far-right Republican, at once denounced it as a Democratic "buildup for 1948." Illinois' 81-year-old Adolph Sabath, a Democrat, complained because no copy of the Wagner Labor Act was included in the exhibits. In Henry Wallace's New Republic, Langston Hughes, Red-winged Negro poet, heaved a shrewdly aimed rock...
...engineer on the Freedom Train...
...coal black man drive the Freedom Train...
...still a porter on the Freedom Train...