Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became an impresario of professional tennis in 1928 when he imported Czechoslovakian Karel Kozeluh for an exhibition tour. In 1931 he recruited Francis T. Hunter after that wealthy New Yorker had dropped some $3,000,000 in the stockmarket. That year Tilden also turned professional. Last year in partnership with Tilden Mr. O'Brien amply demonstrated that a big tennis player can cash in handsomely on his talents. Net of last year's operations was $144,000. Vines got a flat 50% of that. This year he is going to get only 12½% of the gross, expected...
...rested in its case in the H. A. A. office ever since. It is expected, however, that both gifts will soon take their places beside others in a trophy case of The University. Harvard presented these two teams with mahogany baseball bats when it met them on its tour during the summer...
...third ranking amateur, national indoor singles champion and co-holder of the world's double title, was signed by Bill O'Brien for an extended tour starting in Madison Square Garden, January 9, bringing into professional tennis the greatest doubles combination in the game...
...President Roosevelt's tour of the Tennessee Valley this week was seen tonight as the first skirmish in the Administration's battle for cheaper electric rates to inspire public ownership of municipal utilities...
...President will leave Thursday night on a 3-day tour of the TVA project, ending at Warm Springs...