Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early one morning, on an empty stomach, the President boarded his special in Washington, after breakfast alighted in Philadelphia, drove to Temple University where he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence. Then he hustled back to his train, whizzed off toward Cambridge...
...Every train to the French frontier was jammed with taut-faced people. "Who are they?" a correspondent asked a station official at the frontier. "Dukes, marquises and millionaires!" replied the station official correctly...
Leaving the parade ground, King Carol and his red-headed Magda Lupescu made a sentimental journey to the suburban château where for more than four years they lived in exile (TIME, June 16, 1930). Taking the Blue Train to Nice, they were up until dawn, dancing in the streets at a city fete. Next day His Majesty, 42, motored out to the villa of famed Dr. Serge Voronoff, monkey-gland rejuvenator...
Throughout this article, I have constantly referred to "trained college graduates." Those of us who are devoting all of our time and attention to the problem of training public servants of the highest standards for America's government and semi-public problems, are convinced more and more as time rolls on of the utter lack of wisdom in any effort to "train" for public service, as such, in undergraduate years at college. There are many reasons for this. In the first place, that man who devotes his attention to such "tool" subjects as personnel management, fire and police administration...
With the development of the three-year post graduate course at Harvard University, those Harvard men who wish to "train" for public service have an enviable opportunity, and, to my mind, the best means of attaining their end. In addition, through the requirement of a years of graduate work, the University is opening the advantages of internship to its trainees. With such a program, I am confident, the Harvard graduates of future years will turn their efforts toward achievement in public life with splendid background and developed abilities...