Word: training
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold and partly cloudy in Washington last week when President Roosevelt returned from Warm Springs. Rested after his quietest week since the war began, he stepped off the train to be greeted by a sober-visaged Secretary of State Cordell Hull, flanked by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson. The President's quietest week was over, ended by bombs falling on Helsinki by Russia's invasion of Finland...
...petitioners an army. London threw open its gates to them, so did Lincoln and Exeter. Wales promised help, and the Scottish nobles spurred south to add the strength of their swords. The country had risen as a man: John found himself with but seven loyal horsemen in his train, facing a nation in arms...
...World War I-is the Section Automobile Feminine Française. This is composed of about 1,200 definitely wealthy women, each owning her own car, for only the rich have cars in France. During the evacuation of Paris by thousands of civilians, most of whom left by train, they dashed about carrying blankets, rood and mail to évacués in their new country homes...
When the "locomotive of history" (Lenin's phrase) took its latest "sharp turn" and thundered dizzily onto that marvel of engineering, the Soviet-Nazi trestle, many a U. S. liberal got train-sick, made ready to leap. But not all. Last week some churchmen still sat in the Pullman, even while the locomotive of history rattled past the unlovely view of bombs raining on Finland...
...James W. Fesler, who could hear the weekly broadcast much better in their own front parlor (in the studio the music sounds almost as if it were being played under a blanket), make special weekly train trips to Manhattan to see the Maestro conduct in the fiery flesh. Two Buffalo newlyweds recently made Studio 8-H their Niagara Falls. One Texan chartered a plane to get there. Refugees from Central Europe spend their first two cents on U. S. soil to stamp a letter to NBC asking for passes. Bootleg passes retail at $25 a pair. Last week, when Toscanini...