Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic background of war and foretold that the problem could only be solved by "careful study and hard work". The study of history convinced him that peaceful solutions can be arrived at by compromise and moreover, will be less of a loss economically and not bring in their train worldwide collapse and depression...
With three weeks of seagoing fun aboard the Houston behind him, the President went to Charleston's grimy old railroad station, boarded his Atlantic Coast Line special for Washington. Shus-sh! hissed the engine. Then shushushushushushs and the train rolled out of the shed in a whirl of smoke. Suddenly there was a great grinding of brakes. The train stopped. A detail of Secret Servants dropped off the cars, ran back through the agitated crowd. Rushing toward the detectives was a squad of sailors, carrying between them a large box. Quickly and mysteriously it was thrown aboard the train...
Sandy Valley by Clyde Singer, a landscape in the manner of John Steuart Curry in which an incredibly red sun was setting behind an equally red farmhouse while a railway train let out a plume of smoke in the middle distance. It won the $500 Norman Wait Harris Medal. Gallery visitors greeted with relief that ably-painted veteran of a dozen U. S. art shows, Eugene Speicher's portrait of a mustached blacksmith, Red Moore (TIME, April...
...mail of Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles Frank A. Goodwin turned a letter from Mrs. Constance Lodge Williams, daughter of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Tart Mrs. Williams wanted to know why the Registrar had not "disciplined" John & James Roosevelt for driving through a red light into a train last month (TIME...
Negro Oze Edward Simmons, son of a Fort Worth janitor, arrived at the University of Iowa on a freight train, enrolled in the class of 1937, worked his way by washing cars. As a freshman, he ran through the entire Iowa varsity six times in one afternoon of football practice. As a sophomore, he was the star of an Iowa team that sometimes gave him half-hearted support. Last week, speedy, swivel-hipped, elusive Oze Simmons snaked through Illinois for a 71-yd. run & touchdown in the second period. Captain Dick Crayne made two more in the last, kept Iowa...