Word: overland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Senator David Baird Jr. of New Jersey and Mrs. Frances H. Smith, widow of a former business partner of Senator Baird; at the Toledo, Ohio home of Linwood A. Miller, president of Willys-Overland Co. Mrs. Baird is an aunt of Mrs. Miller. Senator Baird a boyhood friend of Mr. Miller...
...xylophone. . . . All of them have something they like to do in the fall and winter-their time for big meals, things to drink, late sleeping, being with the family, making a little money on the side. But now you may walk into a pullman car on one of the overland limiteds and see a bunch of them sitting around, looking bigger in their store clothes than on the field, sunburned from the Florida training season, playing bridge or poker, drinking charged water or ginger ale with nothing in it. For last week the big league ball season opened. Enthusiasts throughout...
...January 1930, Sir Percival sailed for Turkey and came back overland through Europe, leaving consternation in his wake -such as the Steyr scandal in Vienna and the Isotta-Fraschini affair in Milan (TIME, March 31). Back in London, "Sir P.," who is after all an Englishman, did not join Mr. Ford in lambasting his countrymen. Instead, for his part, he discreetly praised the European workman, thus: "Laboring under the same conditions and receiving the same high wages the European workman is more efficient than the American, who is no miracle worker...
...State Department did not know. Geographers believed that his itinerary lay to Constantinople, then across the Black Sea to Batum in Georgia, whence he would go by train across the Transcaucasian S. F. S. R. to Baku. There he would ship down the Caspian to Barfrush, going overland to Teheran. Had he traveled through countries officially recognized by the U. S., his route would have taken him to Damascus, with a flight to Bagdad or perhaps by water around Arabia and up to the head of the Persian Gulf...