Word: training
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herbert Hoover set out from Washington to Palo Alto, to vote for himself and be voted for. At Cumberland, Md., he paused and spoke again about Prosperity. One aside in this speech revealed the political flair which he had seldom been suspected of having. Spying some of the train crew in the crowd he said: "I think I ought to tell them I am grateful to them. . . . I have come to think of this strip of railroads across the middle of America as my own Main Street, on which I make my journeys from my office to my own front...
Newton Diehl Baker, a different type of speaker, was the man upon whom the Democrats had originally counted to persuade Missouri. But Mr. Baker, on his way to St. Louis three weeks ago, was stricken with acute neuritis and nervous fatigue. He had to get off his train, at midnight, and return to Cleveland where, last week, he was still abed...
Charles Curtis voted in Topeka, Kan. Then he went and stood at the grave of his wife. She had died four years too soon. He learned of the landslide on awaking aboard a train near Chicago. From President Coolidge he received a quirky little message: "... I regret that the country will not also have your distinguished services as a Senator...
...world esteem which makes it, unlike many another religious or semi-religious body, internationally and provincially welcome. Abundantly energetic, Dr. Mott is that type of man who would call that day grand on which he was called dynamic. His workday begins 10 minutes before he takes a commuters' train from Montclair, N. J., to Manhattan. At the station he is met by his secretary, begins immediately to dictate letter after letter and continues dictating across the Hudson. Luncheon is to him no gastronomic interlude ; it is incidental to concurrent conferences. His secretaries have been young college men, whom...
Music, Cheers, and songs will come from the train of young women armed with red torchlights and banners, and dressed in costumes varying from those worn by big business men to the attire of a hod carrier...