Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mexico City last week gave Colonel Fulgencio Batista the largest, noisiest and most colorful reception that has been given any foreign visitor since Lindbergh. Cuba's barrel-chested little "strong man" had climbed up to the city's mile-high plateau in a special train provided by the President for a ten day visit during which he will exchange neighborhood gossip with Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas, talk shop with Mexico's military chiefs. Conscious that the eyes of Washington were upon him to be sure he did not show too much interest in radical Mexico...
...weary Harvardite returning to Cambridge after a strenuous New York weekend had the good fortune to witness an exceptional example of this Service. Before the train pulled into each station the conductor would poke his head inside the door and moan a sorrowful "Stamford," or "Bridgeport," or "Saybrook." However when the train was approaching the captial of Rhode Island, the monotony was broken. The conductor opened the door to make his usual station identification, but he was a changed man. The sterling spirit of the N.Y., N.H. & H. asserted itself as he loudly proclaimed. "The next station is Providence, just...
...order that the special section of the train returning from Montreal with the hockey team on Wednesday, February 22, may be reserved, the H. A. A. announces that those who wish reservations should communicate with Mr. Getchell at the H. A. A. as soon as possible...
Dean Holmes annual report is a significant educational doctrine. For it has logically and comprehensively stated the case for Graduate Schools of Education as training grounds for teachers. Such schools have two separate functions. They train educational administrators whose sole function will be formulation of general educational policy. They also train individual Latin and History teachers in the science of teaching. This first function is generally admitted. The second is almost generally denied...
...make his own principles articulate, Archbishop Mooney summoned all the 542 priests of his archdiocese-including one whose parish work is something of a side line, and whose love for labor is not great, Rev. Charles Edward ("Silo Charlie"*) Coughlin. As a starter in helping "Christian workers to train themselves in principle and technique to assume the leadership in the unions which their numbers justify," Archbishop Mooney proposed founding parish labor schools. Such schools, he said, might "sift the good from the bad in labor proposals, and be the defenders of sound, constructive union activity against . . . Communistic agitation...