Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nightfall the body of Joe Robinson rode back to Arkansas whence he had come, on a special train bearing 38 Senators and a large delegation from the House. The train also carried all 4,000 floral offerings, including wreaths from the Democratic National Committee and the Jefferson Islands Club, from Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of the President, from President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines, from Japanese Ambassador Hirosi Saito...
Aboard the train which carried the body of Joseph T. Robinson back to his native Arkansas were, besides the Senator's family and friends, 38 Senators, 23 Representatives, Postmaster General Jim Farley, Assistant Attorney General Joe Keenan, Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West. It would not be just to say that any of them did not have sorrow in his heart, but all had politics, biggest politics. Hardly had the train pulled out of Washington when the politicians started and it continued, save for a few solemn moments in Little Rock, until the train pulled again into Washington...
...Senator Robinson. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky, choice of the President for the post, and Senator Pat Harrison, backed by most of the veteran Senators and Court Bill opponents, were the rival candidates. Both kept pretty much to their staterooms. But their friends and supporters lobbied all over the train keeping a jealous eye on one another. The Republicans aboard, led by Senators Vandenberg and Bridges, looked on happily. The rest, even Senator La Follette who is not a Democrat but a Progressive, were engrossed in serious business, too engrossed even for much poker or whiskey, the customary relaxations...
...emphasized Alben Barkley's place as "acting leader." Before they left Washington the President had called Pat Harrison to the White House to make amends, to assure him that he was neutral in the contest, absolutely neutral. But this did not allay the tense feeling on the funeral train...
...boat for the border and it looks as though their troubles are ove r until the Countess falls ill. At the border, the American Red Cross enters the proceedings as deus ex machina. Marlene is popped into a sickbed. A. J. dodges one more firing squad, boards her hospital train as it pulls away from Russia...