Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the Roosevelts will show their guests Mount Vernon, going by water on the Potomac (lunch aboard). At Arlington, the King will wreathe the Unknown Soldier's grave. Dinner that night will be at the British Embassy, after which George & Elizabeth will go by train to Manhattan...
...Europe's war fever does not rise again, June 7 will be historic. Shortly before midnight that day, on a train rolling over the international bridge below Niagara Falls, a King of England will enter the U. S. for the first time. For U. S. detectives, a day last week was historic. In the U. S. for the first time arrived the chief detective of Scotland Yard on active duty...
Reporters will travel on a pilot train running ahead of the royal special nonstop from the border to Washington. President & Mrs. Roosevelt will meet Their Majesties at 11 a. m. at Union Station, where the State reception suite* is being redecorated with $16,000 of PWA money. At the White House, the diplomatic corps will be received before Their Majesties lunch privately with the Roosevelts. After lunch will follow Sir Ronald & Lady Lindsay's garden party at the British Embassy; that night, a state dinner and reception at the White House, where Their Majesties will sleep...
...evening of October 16, the treaty was signed while church bells rang and a crowd clamored outside the town hall. It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon. Mussolini took a special train from Rome to Milan, drove a racing car from Milan to Stresa, a speedboat from Stresa to Locarno. Briand, always in bed by nine if possible, was asleep two hours after the signing. But he was stirred: "It is ended," he said later, "that long war between us. Ended those long veils of mourning for the pains that will never be assuaged. Away with...
...Artist Berdecio works with an air-compressing machine and a spray gun of the common industrial type (same principle as an atomizer), using not ordinary Duco enamel but a similar nitrocellulose paint. It has taken him six years, since he first started work with Siqueiros in Mexico City, to train his trigger finger to its present control. Painted on pressed wood, his two mural Portraits of New York were full of refined detail, though somewhat lifeless in color and very stark in symbolism. Each embodied a major ingenuity which Artist Berdecio calls "kinetic perspective" by which distortions are so anticipated...