Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Subjects for talk: trade, continental defense, Dictators. In any picture of the Dictators fostering a totalitarian state in South America, Brazil looms first and largest because its undeveloped areas are widest, its German and Italian populations powerful. Two years ago Brazil wanted to hire decommissioned U. S. warships to train its navy, but Argentina objected. After Argentina's obstruction of U. S. proposals at the Lima conference last month, her objections might now be disregarded...
...Littauer, clearly, is no theoretical idealist. He translates his vision into action, within his compass. The school at Harvard, for example, is designed to train superior administrators of public office, a worthy objective, and the Littauer Foundation was founded to promote "better understanding among mankind...
...coaches on a train from New York City to Albany last week rode five despairing, middle-aged women put aboard by a noisy, demonstrative crowd of friends. In a parlor car on the same train, rode New York's bald, kindly Governor Herbert Lehman, glad to be unnoticed. At his office in Albany, some hours later, he met them face to face. For five hours Mesdames Fanny Zimmerman, Yetta Friedman, Ellen O'Loughlin, Yetta Chaleff, Mary Guariglia sat before him silent and tearless (by advice of counsel). For five hours he had to face them while lawyers-talking...
...Jesse James, the Outlaw and its sequels, Missouri's famed train robber was portrayed as a morally delinquent crook. Producer Darryl Zanuck naturally takes a kinder view of Jesse's failings. Purified in the person of Tyrone Power, Jesse James emerges brilliantly in Technicolor as an amiable brigand, genuinely devoted to his aged mother and generally more sinned against than sinning...
...Boston and Maine railroad, will run one ski train Sunday through Crawford Notch to Fabyan, New Hampshire, leaving Boston at 8 o'clock in the morning and returning the same evening. Crawford Notch has ten inches of snow, while Fabyan...