Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after the confirmation, he beamingly received congratulations and that night one of his friends, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, gave a party to celebrate the victory. Then the handsome, happy professor entrained for the West, to attend a farmers' picnic at Brookings, S. Dak., to make a ten-day inspection tour of agricultural experiment stations and grasshopper control projects. But though he gaily turned his back on the brief tempest which had brewed over him at the Capitol...
...Talbott used to have a busy hand in real estate in Florida, where she still keeps a home. She has been president of the Anti-Suffrage League in Ohio, of the Anti-Saloon League. But now the Westminster Choir and its forthcoming tour take most of her time. This week she was bustling around Manhattan, working on her plan to get the Russian tour financed by U. S. corporations doing business with the Soviets. But she planned to take time to go to Princeton. The festival is named in her honor. Besides as in years past, she will solo...
Harvard's representatives will leave from Seattle June 29 and will arrive in Japan where they will be the guests of the Japan Student English Association, sponsors of the conference. Following the conference in Tokyo, the members will be taken on a two-week's tour of southwestern Japan and Manchukuo. All of the expenses of the stay in Japan will be paid by the Japanese organization...
...assigned to the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, went to Pensacola to learn flying. As a captain he won his wings at the age of 53. Not long after he was made aircraft commander of the Battle Force, with his flag flying from the Langley. It was during this tour of duty on the West Coast that the effective and unconventional Admiral found himself without a car one Sunday evening when he had a dinner engagement at a fashionable Coronado hotel. He solved this difficulty by driving off in a Navy truck, so startling the marine sentry that he saluted...
...When Curtis Publishing Co.'s dividends were high Mrs. Bok spent a good $500,000 per year on her musical institute, gave hard-pressed students a monthly stipend besides tuition, financed many a concert tour. The Curtis faculty has included such famed musicians as Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Pianists Wilhelm Bachaus and Moriz Rosenthal, the late great Leopold Auer...