Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early one morning last week on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks just outside Grand Rapids, Mich, two special trains passed each other in opposite directions. At the end of the southbound train was the private car, David Livingstone. At the end of the northbound train was another private car, Pioneer. As the racket of passing abruptly ceased, someone on the back platform of David Livingstone raised his arm, threw something. A handful of small objects rattled on the rear platform of Pioneer. A Secret Service man snatched at one, scrutinized it suspiciously. It was a Landon campaign button...
Thus last week the two Nominees for the Presidency passed, one on his way to the White House, the other headed in the opposite direction. One train was as gay as a showboat, full of confident political advisers, competent secretaries, pretty young women and Franklin Delano Roosevelt setting everyone a merry pace. The other train, by comparison, was grim and dour, filled with advisers troubled about where the money was coming from, aides worrying over campaign details that went askew, reporters grumping over their accommodations. Only man aboard the David Livingstone special whose morale was tiptop was Alfred Mossman Landon...
...Spain. Direct Madrid-Moscow radio communication had just been opened and the Central Executive Committee of the Spanish Communist Party flashed urgent appeals to the Dictator. Stalin's whereabouts have been secret since he was reported to have left Moscow "on vacation" with his entourage in an armored train, reputedly to suppress insurgence in his native Georgia. Last week, wherever Stalin was, the Spanish Communists soon got a radio reply signed by Stalin as Secretary General of the Russian Communist Party telling them that "The toilers of the Soviet Union are only carrying out a duty in rendering...
...trophy awarded in the first Vanderbilt Cup Race 30 years ago, presented by William K. Vanderbilt; the sailplane Falcon, presented by the widow of Sportsman Warren Edwin Eaton (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934); a Maybach dirigible engine; a Mergenthaler linotype; a model of the locomotive De Witt Clinton and train; 108 new textiles; 136 coins; 1,314 stamps. Dancer Sally Rand did not send in her fans, as she has promised to do eventually. Nor was the Wright Brothers' plane forthcoming from London, whither Orville Wright, angered by what he considered humiliations at home, sent it-and whence Secretary Abbot...
...hope to enlarge their earnings by wagering on their products, he made it his purpose from the outset to derive a surer if more modest income solely from prizes. By 1929 he had achieved his ends sufficiently to impress a Florida colonel, one Isidor Bieber, who hired him to train his B. B. Stable. Last year Hirsch Jacobs bought the Bieber horses, settled down to work in earnest. Since 1933, the first year he led the list of U. S. trainers, he has saddled 507 winners. They amount to the unheard of proportion of 30% of his entries...