Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman Harry Guy Taylor of the Western Association of Railway Executives an nounced that during 1935 the number of passenger deaths resulting from train accidents was (1 nine thousand eight hundred one, 2 five hundred, 3 seventy-four, 4 two hundred seventy three, 5 zero...
With a ten-gallon hat stowed away in the luggage on his special train, President Roosevelt rolled out of Washington one midnight last week for a 4,000-mile swing through the Southwest. With him were Senator Joe Robinson, RFChairman Jesse Jones, Senator Hattie Caraway. Mrs. Roosevelt was to board the train at Memphis. Announced purpose of this "nonpolitical" trip was to attend and make speeches at three historical celebrations-Arkansas' Century of Statehood at Little Rock, the Texas Centennial at Dallas, the dedication of a memorial to George Rogers Clark at Vincennes...
...bottom of the pit, bounced up again, settled for good with its floor split, its walls and mechanism utterly demolished. Jounced into a screaming jumble on the floor were the passengers, all alive, but two with broken legs, others with sprained ankles, bruises. These injuries, which in train, ship, automobile or airplane wrecks would not be considered unusual, last week caused headlines because they occurred on the world's greatest, safest, most reliable means of transport...
...Nashville he was more than three-quarters of the way to Arkansas, where he opens his speaking tour this week, but lest he be accused of mingling obsequies and politics in one trip, he backtracked 724 mi. to Washington. Not wasted, however, were his 38 hours on the train. In his air-cooled car, with two stenographers, he drafted his speeches for this week. At Washington he spent 30 hours cleaning up odds & ends, then started off again...
...ungrudging regard and affection of all men who came within the radius of his genial influence." Stumbling through his speech, Minority Leader Snell observed: "No worthier nor more dauntless friend nor foe than Joe Byrns ever smiled across yonder dividing aisle." Late that afternoon a funeral train, with 60 Representatives and 14 Senators aboard, rolled out of Washington, bearing all that was mortal of Joe Byrns back to Tennessee for a second funeral service. Ten minutes behind it in a special train rode President Roosevelt, accompanied by Secretary Hull and Postmaster General Farley. In Nashville next day they...