Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Click. The company placed a $200,000 order with Pullman Co. and General Motors Corp. to build a streamlined, oil-or gasoline-motored train capable of traveling 110 m.p.h...
...life recalls the respect that Congress paid him after his death. You will find nothing loftier in our annals. The three-day recess enabled his fellows to set down their admiration for his single-handed fight against American Imperialism. They felt the prophetic verity of his warning of the train of troubles that "would follow our acquisition of the Philippines. They responded to the memory of the courage of the lone individual who faced the flaming patriotism of Congress and country in the grip of Spanish War victory frenzy, who faced it to the end and with the last ounce...
...news that Ortiz was coming, the rebels flickered among the hills like fireflies. They attacked a Rural Guard patrol in Sancti Spiritus, killed three guardsmen. Twenty-five of them quietly overran and pillaged the sympathetic village of Taguasco. Others derailed a Havana-Santa Clara City passenger train, dynamited railway bridges at Jiqui, Donato and Tarafa. They looked for reinforcements, ammunition and money from the Cuban exiles in Miami. Cuba's onetime President Mario Menocal had disappeared from Miami. Some said (but few believed) he was on the high seas with the men and guns the Santa Clara rebels wanted...
...received it is learned that R. B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, and Master of Eliot House, while traveling in Italy, became involved in an altercation with Fascist police, and fears are entertained for his safety. Merriman, it is believed, was accosted while on the train, by the Italian agents...
Firmly believing in his innocence, he protested the action and is understood to have resorted to physical violence in an effort to defend his position. The affair was finally settled and although the officers threatened arrest and removal from the train it is believed that he was released...