Word: journey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taking Herbert Hoover home. Capt. C. R. Train praised his men for having aroused not a single complaint during their shore leave in Brazil. Every man received a Christmas card autographed by President-Elect and Mrs. Hoover. Homecoming plans had been altered to make Washington, not Florida, the journey's end. Inasmuch as most of the Utah's personnel live closer to Hampton Roads than to Key West, the change meant that many of them could see wives, families, friends again, before departing on a three months cruise to Panama. It was with joyous tones that some...
Since the President-Elect obviously had not altered his homeward journey solely for the good of the Utah's sailors, Washington rumored and conjectured reasons for the alteration. Some said that Mr. Hoover was returning because of unexpected opposition to supposed members of his cabinet-Andrew Mellon in particular, or he was coming home to save the Kellogg-Briand Peace Treaty, or the trouble was that Hubert Work, Republican National Committee Chairman, had planned to take "patronage" (i.e., job issuing) out of Congressional hands and into the committee's and his own, and Mr. Hoover was going...
Summer passed with its flowers, fall with its gleaning; the stalks stood bare in the fields. A general taxation had been decreed for all the Roman Empire. In compliance with custom it became necessary for Joseph to make the nine days' journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, far south in the province of Judaea, the city of David, there to be taxed. It was nigh Mary's time but he took her with...
Arriving in Rochester on the first leg of the journey, the men will be entertained by the Harvard Club of Rochester at their annual' dinner, after which they will visit the Eastman Conservatory of Music. Following the opening concert in the evening, the musicians will adjourn to a dance given by Mr. and Mrs. Harper Sibley for their daughter...
...late dance at the Wood-stock Country Club will be the order of the evening in Indianapolis where the Crimson musicians will vie with the members of the Williams Cap and Bells in entertaining their respective followers. The following day, the Clubs will wind up their journey in Chicago, with a gala lunch at the H-Y-P Club, and a debutante party in the evening...