Word: journey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After an all-night rail journey beaming Gastounet arrived in Nice. Here he was to make what his entourage said would be the last great speech of his career-and incidentally the first one in which as President of France he would freely speak his mind. Ordinarily the President is supposed to be hyperneutral about everything, but he is allowed to have one final fling. Appropriately last week this fling was made in a gambling house, the famed Palais de la Méditerranée built at Nice by Frank Jay Gould of Paris and New York, dedicated...
...poor to buy him a commission in a crack regiment. Young Richard had to be content with the native army of the East India Company. But the routine of army life soon bored him; he was always putting in for risky assignments: investigations in disguise among the natives, a journey to Harrar in Somaliland, whence no white man had ever returned; searching for the source of the Nile (his companion Speke got the credit for discovering Victoria Nyanza, but Burton led the expedition). He made the pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise, went to Salt Lake City in the reign...
...boating trip in the Mediterranean with his good friend the Archbishop of Canterbury. A Morgan Partner who had been in Madrid hurried to the meeting; so did Gates W. McGarrah, president of the Bank for International Settlements. King Alfonso went to Paris too, officially to break his journey to Madrid. Three days later came the announcement: an international credit of $60,000,000 for the Spanish Government had been established. J. P. Morgan & Co. and associates (Chase National Bank; Bankers Trust Co.; National City Bank; Guaranty Trust Co.; Kuhn, Loeb & Co.; Dillon, Read & Co.; Lee, Higginson & Co. and others) would...
Gilbert Kerlin '33 made the trip with the team to compete for the Clemence medal this morning. This is separate from the intercollegiate and is open only to those who have never taken part in intercollegiate fencing meets. The members of the University fencing team who made the journey are Captain H. C. Cassidy '31, H. B. Wessleman '31, and J. D. Allen '31, who will compete in the foils, W. M. Wing '32 and R. B. Lawson '32, entered in the sabre, and K. R. Ludlam '33, who will represent Harvard in the epee...
...Rich Port." Under a blistering sun President Hoover and Governor Roosevelt got into the first car of a long motorcade and started the five-hour journey across the island by the old Spanish military road to San Juan, the capital. By prearrangement, in the front of the crowds that lined the way were children, the brown, half-naked, half-starved little creatures who are Governor Roosevelt's chief concern.? Beggary is a pastime among these youngsters whose cry ("Gimme moan-ee") is known to every tourist...