Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Picketing was peaceful for three weeks. Then trouble popped. A train ran through an open switch, killing two of the crew. Three bridges burned. The strikers' womenfolk got hungry. At Minden, La. 200 of them swarmed on a train, stripped and beat the fireman, made the engineer telegraph his resignation to President Peter Couch...
...spattered the Shreveport-New Orleans Hustler, smashed a Pullman window, narrowly missed a passenger. At Winnfield birthplace of Huey Long, a howling pistolwaving, rock-throwing mob besieged a tramload of Louisiana State University football rooters returning to Baton Rouge after a game with the University of Arkansas at Shreveport. Train guards ordered all lights out. The passengers were forced to lie on the aisle floors for hours, keep up their courage by sucking at flasks until local police drove...
Just before leaving Hyde Park for his triumphal return to Washington (see p. 23), President Roosevelt sent his Secretary Marvin H. Mclntyre and two automobiles to nearby Poughkeepsie to meet a special train arriving from Manhattan. Off the train stepped Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, Auxiliary Bishops Francis J. Spellman of Boston and Stephen J. Donahue of New York, the Cardinal Secretary's gentleman-in-waiting, Enrico Galeazzo, and two Catholic New Dealers, Joseph P. Kennedy and Frank C. Walker, with their wives. The party was whisked over to Hyde Park for luncheon followed by a brief...
...Joseph Graham Mayo, 35, son of Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo of Rochester, Minn.'s famed Mayo Brothers (other: Dr. William James); when, to get from one highway to another, he drove his automobile down the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad tracks and was crushed by a Chicago-bound train; in Alma...
...reported $100,000, onetime Cinemactor John Leslie ("Jackie") Coogan, 22, bought a 10-acre San Fernando (Calif.) Valley estate; including six acres of walnuts, a 12-room farmhouse, caretaker's cottage, stables, kennels, chicken and turkey-raising equipment, $10,000 electric train, once the property of Cinema Director Lloyd Bacon...