Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer pertinent to dwell upon the necessity for trained men in public life. Dozens of experiences that each of us have every day not only confirm in our own minds such a necessity but also many times prove to be a source of embarrassment mingled with shame over the fact that we have been so long in coming to the obvious realization. Young college men who are interested in politics and government, particularly public administration, are today interested in two main problems: first, what definite opportunity is there for trained men in government service today and what possibilities are there...
...announced yesterday that even when the water did open up, no Varsity boat would be launched until he bad seen all the more promising oarsmen show their stuff in the Leviathan-Even letter men will be forced to submit to the revealing test of the scow usually used to train inexperienced Freshman...
Crape-draped, a German special train was sent to the Swiss frontier last week. From the trim little railway station a plain coffin was carried by big-boned Nazis and heaved aboard. Surviving relatives of the corpse were ushered ceremoniously into the train, and with them rode a Guard of Honor as the special set out for their family home in Schwerin. At all large stations the funeral car stopped opposite a band and local Nazis sang the Horst...
Wessel song, hailed "Our Martyr!" Another special steamed out of Munich and, over cleared tracks with all switches spiked, roared down toward Schwerin. This was the luxurious train of the Realmleader, and only a handful of officials knew his destination. It had not been known that Adolf Hitler would orate over the corpse from Switzerland. In the eyes of bored neutrals, nothing had happened except that the No. I Nazi Agent in the Swiss Republic, little-known Wilhelm...
...Morgan made an interim report on the current state of Florida East Coast. The road's immediate problem is the Key West Extension, 40 miles of which was completely wrecked by the hurricane that howled over the Florida Keys last autumn (TIME, Sept. 16). Since then not a train has run south of the mainland jump-off station of Homestead. The road estimates that nearly $3,000,000 is needed to replace spans and causeways with steel structures, $1,800,000 to do it with wooden trestles. Another $500,000 is needed for other hurricane damage. "After making inquiries...