Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was Governor Roosevelt's "fight talk" last week to 500 campaign workers at Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore. It was his first visit to his national headquarters. He had just returned from his Southern tour, with his voice hoarse and the lining of his felt hat hanging out. After a handshake and a smile all around, he sped to Albany where Al Smith visited him for the first time in nearly a year...
...banners joggled up & down as they lustily sang the "Internationale." When they spied a tall, handsome, white-haired man coming from his train, they rushed forward and engulfed him with their enthusiasm. It was Norman Mattoon Thomas, Socialist nominee for President, back from a five-week transcontinental campaign tour. Nominee Thomas had traveled 10,000 miles through 38 States, made 150 speeches. His campaign slogan: "Repeal Unemployment." His remedy: a $10,000,000,000 bond issue for direct Federal relief. Typical Thomas speech...
...recital. Michael E. Paterno, rich realtor, paid him $1,000 for dancing three minutes at a private party. Month ago Escudero returned to the U. S. to follow up last winter's success. After another Manhattan recital, he set out last week on a transcontinental tour which should make...
...little, each member of the cast is forced to reveal what he or she knows of the death. On the surface, as the curtain rises, the Priestley puzzle-pieces are good companions. They are not when the final curtain rings down. The cast of this extremely talky but interesting tour de force includes Colin Keith-Johnston (the terrier-like Captain Stanhope of Journey's End) and caustic, statuesque Jean Dixon (Once In A Lifetime, June Moon...
When Senator George William Norris of Nebraska opened his speaking tour for Governor Roosevelt in Philadelphia's Metropolitan Opera House last week, his voice was to be broadcast. Somebody blundered. The Senator spoke into dead microphones. Next day Publisher Julius David Stern's Philadelphia Record shrieked with an eight-column banner: THE RADIO FAILED! FULL TEXT OF SENATOR NORRIS' SPEECH IN THIS NEWSPAPER...