Word: round-the-world
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...distinguished statesman, and son of the late Chinese Minister to the U. S., Wu Ting-fang to proceed at once to Washington and explain the Nationalist case against Japan before U. S. public opinion. At Paris last week Dr. Wu, who is on a round-the-world trip for the Nationalist...
...Prime Ministry since the last election and was thought last week to be in danger of losing his seat as a Deputy. In the nick of time there arrived to bolster up his candidacy the two least likely persons imaginable: Dieudonné Costes and Joseph Lebrix, famed 'round-the-world aviators (TIME, April...
...taken Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix a little more than six days to complete the Tokyo to Paris (10,370 mi.) lap of the round-the-world flight which they started in October, with a hop across the South Atlantic. They had dallied in the U. S. and crossed the Pacific, which no man has ever spanned by air, in a boat. Their last spurt broke all speed records for the journey...
...President Taft for his fiftieth circumnavigatory voyage since the initiation of the Dollar Line's round-the-world service in 1924. "Mother" Dollar, shipmate of 33 crossings to China and Japan, and on his previous world cruises, will share his cabin. Next week, another one of Robert Dollar's ships, the President Polk, will back out of Singapore, bound for New York. On May 10, the President Polk will leave pier 9, Jersey City, for the 100th round-the-world cruise of the Dollar Line. All over the U. S., newspapers, friends, and business competitors pay their respects...
Generalissimo Chiang shunted out of Nanking two potent politicians not now quite in harmony with himself. They, onetime Foreign Minister Dr. C. C. Wu and onetime Finance Minister Sun Fo were sent, last week, on a round-the-world propaganda dispensing tour...