Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...logorrheic swirl of speeches, talks, statements, challenges and replies Republican Nominee Alf Landon thrust halfway across the continent and all the way back from coast to coast last week on the last lap of what he calls "this battle to save our American System of Government...
...from coast to coast. Emil F. Teichert, Vice-Presidential nominee on the Socialist Labor ticket, undertook a similar tour, had an automobile accident after four speeches, was laid up until last week. Nominee Aiken, however, is still touring, has visited over 100 cities. Last week he was in Altoona, Washington, Baltimore, Reading and Philadelphia. This week he speaks in Newark, Paterson, Jersey City and winds up where he began, in Manhattan, for as he solemnly says : "If our message is un heeded and the Reaction is victorious, never can it be said of the Socialist Labor Party that it ... failed...
Although Nominee Thomas has scoured the continent from coast to coast, since July 1 has averaged two speeches a day and spent most of his nights in Pullman upper berths, although enough intellectual candor has gone into his speeches to debunk the inflated bombast of U. S. politics, this onetime Presbyterian minister has made much less impression in this campaign than he did in 1932. That year, because many a thoughtful citizen refused to have either Hoover or Roosevelt, the Socialist Party, with Norman Thomas heading its ticket, rolled up 884.741 votes its best record since Eugene Debs nearly touched...
...greatest of contemporary composers, will tour the U. S. For a fortnight in January he will conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, for another fortnight the Cleveland Orchestra. Contracts are pending whereby Igor Stravinsky may also appear with the bis symphony orchestras on the Pacific Coast. He will play the piano in joint recitals with Samuel Dushkin. the self-effacing violinist who is devoting his career to Stravinsky's music. Last week Stravinsky's autobiography was published in the U. S.* proved to be a terse, candid book, attempting to clarify a record and a credo which have...
...spite of the indelible impression left by The Green Table, a scathing satire on the men who promote war (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933). Last winter the Jooss group staged its comeback, thanks in part to the booming interest in ballet. This year its tour will extend to the Pacific Coast, later on to the Orient...