Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sugar v. Sugar, Oil v. Oil. The independence sentiment which Secretary Hurley encountered on his "eyes-&-ears" tour sprang, as he well knew, not from any major development within the Philippines themselves but from a sudden and significant shift of economic and political opinion when the U. S. Rocky Mountain beet producers two years ago began to complain that duty-free Filipino cane sugar was depressing their industry. Louisiana cane-growers felt the same way. Concerns with $800,000,000 invested in Cuban sugar production lined up with them against the Philippines. From the North-west came...
...steep Art Hill in St. Louis's Forest Park last week went vanloads of crated sculpture. Forty of the works of Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles-ranked by many a critic as greatest in the generation following Rodin-were en route to the second stop on their U. S. tour: St. Louis to Detroit, to Cleveland, to Toledo, to Brooklyn. They will tarry in the art museums of each city about six weeks. Never before have art lovers in the U. S. had the chance of so long or so extensive a look at Milles' handiwork. In fact, nowhere...
Future plans for the DO-X were some what vague. A tour of the Midwest was projected, also a trip home across the North Atlantic. Plans for selling or chartering
Less reluctant to discuss moral questions in his new home than he had been in California, Bishop Gorman commented, after a tour of the town: "Before we can save the world, we must save ourselves. No crusades are intended...
...Jack Dempsey: his first fight in four years, an exhibition bout against one Jack Beasley; at Reno, by a knockout in the second round. Onetime (1919-26) Heavyweight Champion Dempsey weighed 199 lb., announced a tour of exhibition bouts at the conclusion of which, next March, he might decide to try another "big" fight...