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...Cornell snapped: "I will not permit 30 men to travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind!" That was in 1873. Last week there was not a corner in the land which did not hold a college president who would not have been delighted to dispatch a trainload of players, coaches, rubbers, managers, bandsmen on the long, expensive trip to Pasadena for the publicity and profit of playing in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Named by the Pacific Coast Conference week before to represent the West, Stanford was not to select its Eastern opponent...
...HAVE PUBLISHED REPORTS CONCERNING STATEMENTS OF THE GERMAN CONSUL GENERAL AT GENEVA TO A HIGH OFFICIAL OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS THESE REPORTS ARE UNTRUE THE POINT OF VIEW OF GERMANY CONCERNING NEUTRALITY AND NONPARTICIPATION IN SANCTIONS HAS BEEN IN NO SENSE MODIFIED." "Resist!" Two days later a solid trainload of German coal clattered over the Alps, cheered Italians by arriving in their midst with Nazi exhortations chalked on the freight cars in German and Italian: "Resist! Resist! Resist!'' At Berlin the neutrality policy of the Realmleader was said by his aides to be approximately that of President...
...accompanied by pompous Lord Ashfield, chairman of the London Passenger Transport Board, and proceeded to drive an ordinary subway train up to 40 m.p.h. Suddenly the automatic signals went from green to red, the Duke of Kent removed his hand from the "dead man's handle" and the trainload of ordinary passengers, who had no idea who their motorman was, screeched to an abrupt automatic stop...
...Europe. Subsequently he made a small fortune selling coal to Detroiters. Having left school early, he says he got his education by ''going and seeing things." Twelve years ago, convinced that it is a good thing for boys to go and see things, he rounded up a trainload of youngsters, set out to show them Alaska. Every summer since then Mr. Buchanan and 50 or 60 boys have journeyed across Canada to Vancouver, sailed up the coast to Skagway, spent several weeks touring Alaska, climbing glaciers, panning for gold...
...series of great airports which his Nationalist Government is building across north and central China. A new one was nearing completion last week at Haichow, 250 miles north of Shanghai and at the very edge of the Japanese sphere of influence. Out to see the new airport went a trainload of tourists, among whom were 18 toothy, smiling little Japanese in civilian clothes. Sentries met them at the wire gates, guides were assigned to show them around. Hissing polite appreciation, the Japanese went everywhere, promptly unloaded a battery of cameras and began snapping souvenir snapshots in every direction...