Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Damrosch and his National Broadcasting Orchestra, heard him talk about instruments, learned to understand their use. As patrons of music, big industry has supplanted the individual Maecenas. General Motors plans to spend $300,000 on its Sunday night broadcasts and Ford has outlined a budget almost as big. Ambitious tour of the season will come in the spring when the Philadelphia Orchestra will play in 30 cities, sponsored by RCA-Victor Co. Rumor persists that when his concerts are over Conductor Leopold Stokowski intends to act in a cinema portraying the life of his hero, Richard Wagner...
...party of 101 were airplane-rescued from the ice-sunk Chelyuskin (TIME, April 13, 1934). Subsequently he almost died of pneumonia. Last week, hale & hearty, this editor of the Soviet Encyclopedia and Chief of the Great Northern Sea Route Administration was back in Leningrad after an air tour of Polar settlements. The ecstasy he offered to eager Communists this time was an elaborate scheme for civilizing their blubber-munching Eskimos...
...huge old Union Station as some 135,000 American Legionaries and their families swept into the city last week for their 17th annual convention. Physically still prime electorally as potent as Labor or the Farmers these veterans of the nation's most ambitious War lustily applied themselves to tour full days of pranks, parades, politics. Time & Place. An activity which jumped the official gun was the scramble by four big U. S. cities for next year's convention site. At stake were civic prestige, acres of publicity and $10,000,000 in Legion spending money. Booster delegations outdid...
...morning, sportswriters hailed Joe Louis with all the superlatives they had used for Max Baer two years ago. In his Harlem apartment, a reporter asked Louis how he liked being married. Said "The Brown Embalmer",* ''One night is not enough to tell." His plans included a world tour, a Chicago apartment home, one fight a month, a chauffeur for the Lincoln car he gave his wife for a wedding present, a bout with Max Schmeling next June, another with Champion James J. Braddock next September...
...From Toronto the San Carlo Company goes to Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, plays a month in Kansas City, brief stands in the South, then goes up the Pacific Coast to Vancouver, ends its tour in St. Louis...