Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...developed a kind of "magic seed" which might make grass grow under the trees on the White House lawn, the President asked him to send for some. At week's end, he made his attitude even clearer. Leaving Congress to struggle along in Washington, he boarded a train for Florida, there to embark on a week's fishing trip in the Caribbean. In the party that boarded the Potomac at Miami were WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, to help the President evolve a plan for modernizing...
...Second, graduate schools of journalism have not proved eminently successful in the past. The two chief schools at present, at Columbia and Missouri, doubtless produce capable men, but there is some question as to whether such men are sought after for newspaper jobs. Editors, it seems, still like to train their own men to fit their peculiar standards. For these two reasons, lack of proper finances and the questionable success of similar ventures, a Graduate School of Journalism does not seem to be the answer to Harvard's problem...
...month to vacate. Most puzzling problem of Manager B. E. O'Grady was what to do with a stuffed seated elephant, borrowed from the late President Lucius G. Fisher of the defunct Elephant Paper Bag Co., which has accompanied jubilant Hamilton crowds on their special train to Washington for every Republican inauguration since...
After the War, touring the U. S. with his parents, Crown Prince Leopold greatly surprised correspondents on the royal special train by his democratic willingness to play poker, surprised them still further by quietly trimming them most of the time, always refused to say who taught him the game-a suspect being General Pershing...
...this small but important difference between a music-school graduate and a full-fledged professional, U. S. symphony orchestras were packed with Europeans. Patriotic Teacher Robinson hastened to the late Mrs. E. H. Harriman, asked her to back him in the organization of a symphony orchestra that would train and place promising graduate students. Mrs. Harriman promptly took him up, gave him full charge of the musical end, and rounded up for her management boards as imposing a collection of Social Register names as ever decorated the Metropolitan Opera lists. In 1930 Mrs. Harriman dropped put (reason: Depression...