Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aldrich, reserved, immaculate chairman of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, put on a pair of overalls at Minden, La., climbed into the cab of a locomotive on Mr. Couch's Louisiana & Arkansas R. R. Mrs. Aldrich boarded a coach and the train chuffed off to Hope, Ark. There Utilitarian Couch had a hillbilly band at the station to meet them. The Aldriches climbed out, danced a square dance on the platform before Host Couch whisked them off to his island lodge...
...gaudy, bustling School of Business, endowed with a whacking $6,000,000 by the late George Fisher Baker. So widespread was the apathy toward public service that when the New Deal created the first great demand for topnotch civil servants, no major university had a graduate school to train them. The fact that Harvard did contribute the greatest number of young New Deal recruits was largely an accident. They were not the products of any special training for public service but protégés of Law Professor Felix Frankfurter...
...This season," Mr. Harmon says, "there will be the greatest activity in winter sports ever seen in New England. Advance hotel bookings, especially in New Hampshire, break all previous records. The New Haven Railroad has already sold 500 tickets for its first snow train in January...
Norman Thomas yesterday criticized the projected Graduate School of Public Administration because it would only train men for minor administrative posts. That's half of a good point...
...This accentuates a tendency to make the students feel that the important thing is to pass examinations, regardless of the means, rather than to master and understand the subject, train the mind, and develop critical habits of thought. It has also been our experience that the use of these abridgements encourages a certain type of students to even more questionable methods of passing an examination...