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This week all the major candidates were in the field. The whistles of railway engines wailed across the country and the harumphs of speakers sounded from coast to coast. As the 1948 presidential campaign began, two phenomena became apparent. One was the large crowds which turned out to cheer the dogged little man who (the polls said) couldn't win. The other was the campaign's overall amiability...
Waving goodbye from the platform of his spic & span railway car, hitched on to a string of 16 other railway cars, Harry Truman rolled out of Washington on his 9,000-mile coast to coast tour...
Your Hyderabad reporter is talking through his puggree when he infers that separate railway tea rooms for Moslems and Hindus are an indication of Moslem domination [TIME, Aug. 3]. There are separate railway tea rooms all over India, and even the hawkers who sell tea on the platform advertise two distinctly different brands-Hindu cha and Moslem...
...most Communists, she got around; her name popped up in Prague, Vienna, Berlin, Paris. She learned seven languages. In Paris, she met handsome Maurice Thorez, with whom her friendship was more than political. In 1933, together with fellow Communists George Gheorghiu-Dej and Constantin Doncea, Pauker organized the Bucharest railway strike which ended in bloody fighting between the barricaded workers and government troops...
...Villa Nova outside Glace Bay. Last week "Tossy" MacPherson, father of seven girls and a boy, was on the night trick. He slept until midday, had a noon meal and then, carrying his supper in a lunch box, walked a quarter-mile to Dosco's Sydney & Louisburg Railway to catch the "Hobo," a work-train of boxcars fitted with benches...