Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executed some 40 lynchings. Occasionally he had to evade such triumphant questions as "Well, how would you like to have your daughter marry a nigger?" Once, while investigating a race riot, in Arkansas, he narrowly escaped a mob who had heard he was a Negro investigator, breathlessly boarded a train only to have the conductor say: "You're leaving too soon?they're locking for a yellow nigger." He helped the N. A. A. C. P. publish the first case history of lynching, covering 3,224 cases between 1889 and 1918. And as assistant...
...heavy guard of Bobbies at Euston Station were swept aside like chaff by a crowd of grinning Irishmen who were more than willing to punch the nose of any officer who resisted. With shouts of "WE WANT DEV!", the Irish captured a platform up to which rolled a train bearing President Eamon de Valera. They clawed and climbed their way to the roof of the train -something which in England "isn't done" -cheered and waved Irish flags while the President of Eire was distinctly of two minds. Should he come out, certain to be acclaimed but possibly...
Back in Inglewood, Calif. Cortlandt Hill had a pair of plywood passenger cars which resembled ordinary units of a streamlined duralumin train, but which were mounted on their running gear in a manner which he and several partners claimed was brand-new for railroad cars. Invented by William Van Dorn and Dr. F. C. Lindvall of California Institute of Technology, who have been working on the cars for the past two years in an abandoned Northrup Aviation hangar, the coaches are sprung on a "pendulum" principle by which four heavy vertical coil springs above each...
Even those Harvard skiiers who must study now can get in some good skiing in an afternoon by only driving forty-five miles to Brookline, New Hampshire. Those who can afford a week-end vacation can go to mountains father away, either by automobile or by train...
...those that plan to go by train, the following snow trains are listed for the week-end, as scheduled by the Boston and Maine aRilroad, 8:00 A.M. Snowshoeing Skiing Temperature Inches Snow Bartlett, N. H. GOOD GOOD --5 20 Canann, N. H. GOOD GOOD --10 16 Conway, N. H. GOOD GOOD --7 16 Franconia Notch, N. H. GOOD GOOD --8 19 Goffstown, N. H. GOOD GOOD --1 12 Gerham, N. H. GOOD GOOD --4 15 Greenfield, Mass. GOOD GOOD --10 14 Hanover, N. H. GOOD GOOD --4 13 Intervale, N. H. GOOD GOOD --5 18 Jackson, N. H. GOOD...