Word: railways
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...aisles, asking, "Would you like this window raised? Are you enjoying Germany? Do you know that Adolf Hitler is now our best-educated man because, although he never went to university, he calls our best German professors to lecture to him several times a week?" Italy has slashed her railway and hotel rates so deeply for tourists that they are partial gifts. Last week, with King Edward and the British Prime Minister both canceling their scheduled vacation trips to France (see p. 21), the Chamber of Deputies in Paris was in a mood to hear what is the matter with...
...Other countries have instituted 'tourist money' and 'tourist privileges' while France has offered a premium to French tourist agencies to get tourists to travel in other countries!" cried M. Gaston-Gérard. "Our railway travel costs nearly twice as much as in Great Britain. The price of gasoline in France is prohibitive and tourists no longer bring their cars. While other countries make tourists welcome we start taxing them as soon as they disembark...
...favorite Great Character was Napoleon: "A Royalist, a republican, and an emperor; a Mohammedan, a Catholic, and a patron of the synagogue, a traitor and a tyrant, he was through all his vicissitudes a Man." When Editor McGuffey clipped from the German Press a bloody, harrowing account of a railway wreck, called it The Crazed Engineer, his publishers objected, cut it from posthumous editions...
Nonetheless Geneva's rugged, Calvinist and God-fearing citizens who normally ignore celebrities were at the railway station in thousands at 8:30 a. m. to greet the genuine Haile Selassie with roars of "Vive l'Empereur!". Many turned their plump Swiss backs on handsome young "Tony" Eden as he alighted. The Emperor, whisked to the Carlton Park Hotel, went at once into a huddle with his U. S., French and Swiss advisers. In this crucial hour His Majesty had need of all the cunning which carried him originally to the Ethiopian Throne. Close to the astute...
Last year when the U. S. Supreme Court voided the 1934 Railway Pension Act, which required railroads to pension their aging employes (TIME, May 13, 1935), President Roosevelt had Congress pass a substitute, split into two separate parts, (a retirement act and a companion tax measure), in the hope that each would pass court muster alone and together put railway pensions into effect. Last week, in a test case brought by Alton Railroad Co., Associate Justice Jennings Bailey of the District of Columbia Supreme Court declared the two parts "inseparable," outlawed both on the ground that the tax law sought...