Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Elliott met his sister Anna Dall coming from New York by train. They went to Miss Googins' hotel, to take her and her mother to A Century of Progress. Reporters swarmed about. Was he going to marry Miss Googins? When? Where...
...Lyle, mail carrier of Crawfordsville, Ga., was kidnapped by three escaping convicts, driven in his own car to Wake Forest, N. C., freed. A St. Paul physician named Walter H. Hedberg said he was shot through the ear, beaten, drugged, left in his car in the path of a train when he refused to mutilate a chiropractor at the request of thugs who seized him. What to Do. The kidnapping and killing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. changed the law of the land. Because abduction across a state line is now a Federal offense (punishable one year to life imprisonment...
...door of his Washington home. Warren Gamaliel Harding, onetime bandsman of Marion, Ohio, campaigning with a French horn, shakes hands with lodge brothers in pretentious uniforms. The white sheets and the fiery crosses of the Ku Klux Klan. The Harding inauguration. Oil derricks. Albert Bacon Fall. The Harding funeral train. Calvin Coolidge squeezed into a school desk over which his wife presides as schoolmarm. Calvin Coolidge in a cowboy suit, hoeing in a smock. Mah Jong. Marathon dances. Beauty contests. Rum row. Judge Webster Thayer leaving the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti. Automobiles being made. Superfluous automobiles being burned...
...terror at the vast clouds of smoke belched by wood-burning C. E. R. locomotives. Chinese bandits, observing a peculiar etiquet. never blow up a C. E. R. tunnel which might be too expensive to repair. Tearing up a bit of rail here & there, they rob only an occasional train, are careful not to kill the rail goose which lays so many golden eggs...
...Brussels, violin-playing U. S. Ambassador Dave Hennen Morris presented his credentials to King Albert, had a chat with Queen Elisabeth, a fellow-fiddler. Few days before L'Eventail, Brussels socialite weekly, had commented: "Mr. Morris on getting off the train that brought him to Brussels was seen to be carrying a violin case. Everyone noticed it and everyone was favorably impressed. This diplomat is a musician and he must be passionately fond of music to carry his violin himself. We like diplomats who are artists...