Word: caravane
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...able to join this caravan is the goal of the average U. S. golf professional. Not only does it give him an opportunity to maintain a competitive edge to his game but here is his chance to observe at close range the better-than-average professionals-topnotchers like Harry Cooper, Horton Smith, Johnny Revolta, Henry Pic-ard-who play in the winter circuit because i) they are on the payroll ($5,000 to $10,000 a year) of U. S. sporting-goods manufacturers to publicize their products, and 2) they usually win from $3,000 to $6,000 in prize...
Victor over the ten Harvard Undergraduate "Indians" who staged an "attack" early in its journey, the Caravan has evidently met its match in the elements. Scheduled to arrive in Marietta, Ohio, on April 7, it has failed to reply to all telegraphic and telephone messages...
...Defeated in open battle, the Communists decided on a fantastic escape. Leaving a skeleton force at the front, they moved south & west on the night of Oct. 16, 1934, before Chiang Kai-shek's army got wind of their retreat. With them went thousands of peasants, a mule caravan carrying dismantled machinery, Singer sewing-machines, printing equipment. In forced marches, they crossed twelve provinces, over the 16,000-ft. passes of the Tibet mountains, through the swampy wastes of the grasslands in west China, twice missed annihilation by a hair in crossing treacherous, enemy-held rivers...
...treaties-five conventions, two treaties and a protocol, arranging principally for consultative machinery to prevent war or provide unified Inter-American action in case war is forced upon any of the American republics-have reposed in official discard since their birth a year ago. Publicity given the flying caravan sent Latin American officials scurrying to drag out copies of the conventions. Informed by the U. S. diplomatic representative of the expected caravan visit, one Foreign Minister exclaimed: "My God! We had forgotten all about those treaties. I shall send them to Congress immediately...
South American Government officials, who are amiable about hand-kissing impressionable U. S. clubwomen, hastened to assure the delegation that the treaties will receive early ratification. When the caravan reached Argentina last week it had secured the solemn pledges of Brazil, Cuba, Uruguay and Venezuela to get busy. To their collection the ladies added the promise of Argentina's President, Agustin P. Justo, then headed across the Andes for Santiago, Chile. Next in line for a pressure visit come Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Panama...