Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vice President Curtis was conducting the same sort of smalltown, one-ring-circus tour as four years ago. As in 1928 he floored his audiences with oratorical extravagances, staggered them with tariff statistics, lost his temper when heckled. He had one standard speech for delivery everywhere. Excerpt: "After every great war hard times have followed. We have gone through many such periods, but our people have always come out and gone forward until today our nation is the leading nation of the world." Alone on the stump, the Vice President travelled from town to town in an ordinary Pullman instead...
...colleagues to be completely swamped by the magnitude of his job. Last week in Manhattan he beamed serious good cheer. "The campaign," he insisted, "is going along very well. We are in splendid condition. The country is Republican by several million votes. We have a good Republican President. . . . The tour of Governor Roosevelt through the West has tremendously helped the Republican party...
...last week of the Roosevelt tour was made up largely of bold bids for insurgent Republican support of the Democratic ticket. At Lamy, N. Mex. in the station crowd. Governor Roosevelt spotted Republican Senator Bronson Cutting whom he had known "since he wore short pants." The Governor invited the Senator up to the rear platform of his private car. Senator Cutting clambered aboard, shook Governor Roosevelt's hand, waved to the crowd, said nothing. Three days prior Senator Cutting had lost control of the G. O. P. State organization to Albert Gallatin Simms, new husband of Mark Hanna's daughter...
Washington. Oregon and California stopped, looked and listened last week as Franklin Delano Roosevelt preached them his gospel of "a new deal." At Los Angeles, the two-thirds post of his campaign tour, the Democratic nominee turned the corner and headed east with his no-error record still standing. If September crowds and applause meant November votes (which no rule says they do) the Pacific Coast...
...flaccid operatic score. Chaliapin has been given two supporting casts, one English (Nelson Film, producers), one French (Nelson and Vandor, producers). He is said to be asking $200,000 as his share of the returns. Because he asked $4,000 a concert. Chaliapin's last U. S. tour was a fiasco. This autumn he is returning for less money to a well-booked season...