Off the six "Back to Work Special" trains they trooped into Washington's Union Station: men in open-necked sports shirts, women in spring prints, many wearing blue and white badges marked "A.F.L.-C.I.O. Conference on Unemployment—Jobs for All." Already, some members of the Toledo delegation were looking slightly green; something they had eaten aboard their train soon laid 100 of them low, sent 28 to hospitals. Ohio's Republican Congressman William Hanes Ayres of Akron was on hand at the depot with coffee, doughnuts, and a sign saying: SEE YOUR CONGRESSMAN FIRST. HE CAN HELP YOU MOST.
"Where's that Wide Wide World?" cried...
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