Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told in court, my judgment may be discredited, but certainly my honesty will be vindicated." The cutter bore the Insulls to Fort Hancock on the tip of Sandy Hook. They were motored under guard to Princeton Junction, N. J. and by 10 a. m. were aboard a westbound Pennsylvania train. Next day in Chicago, after being fingerprinted and suffering a slight heart attack, the Elder Insull was arraigned in Federal Court. Judge John P. Barnes promptly announced that bail would be $200,000. Insull stiffened. Said Junior Insull: "We won't even try to raise that...
...Wallis and her husband always called her Gladys. Their home was at No. 23 Lake Shore Drive (now No. 1,100) in one of the first apartment buildings built on Chicago's Gold Coast. There they reared their son Sam who probably had the finest set of electric trains in existence at the time. Later they sent him to St. Paul's School for polish, to Sheffield Scientific School at Yale to prepare for his job as crown prince of the Insull empire. Meanwhile Samuel Insull, a forbidding man in dealing with his public but well liked...
Twentieth Century (Columbia). This febrile saga of a journey on New York Central's crack train was a Broadway success last year (TIME, Jan. 9, 1933). Authors Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur transcribed it into cinema by thinking up new and fantastic situations, by enlarging to heroic proportions the frenzied, egomaniac character of Impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore), and by detailing the way he discovers a lingerie model named Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard), turns her into Lily Garland the Great Actress, bullies her and loses her to Hollywood. Thereafter Jaffe, who resembles Morris Gest, Richard Bennett, Josef von Sternberg...
Meeting in Jackson, Miss. last week was the quadrennial general conference of his Church which four years ago had acquitted the Bishop on the same charges. Before boarding a Washington train to carry him to that conference Bishop Cannon piously wired ahead...
...superstition had Colonel Bradley in a tight corner last week. A train of threes had run its course in 1932 when he won the Derby for the third time. Then in 1933 two miracles happened to him at once: he won the Derby for the fourth time and for the second time in succession, unheard of in the race's history. What Colonel Bradley was hoping against hope for last week was that a new sequence of fortunate threes had been started which would terminate in Bazaar's victory this week. The prayers of every loyal Kentuckian, whose...