Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French flyers had hardly landed before a nation-wide goodwill tour was projected for them by Charles Hayden, popular and potent head of the great Manhattan banking house of Hayden, Stone & Co., director of 71 corporations (including Curtiss-Wright). Ambassador Morrow started the tour fund going with a substantial contribution while Mr. Hayden, smart bachelor with a strong social bent, mapped and arranged receptions, solicited more subscriptions...
...greatest champion against North America tumbled tragically last week from Power. He fought the Monroe Doctrine. He would have no truck with the Kellogg Pact. He flouted the Pan-American projects of Calvin Coolidge, did his best to blight the effect of Herbert Hoover's South American goodwill tour. Yet few U. S. citizens ever knew the name of their Great Enemy: Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen...
...show folk detected a bullish note. Some 250 productions were scheduled to open on Broadway, some 70 productions were routed to play the provinces -an increase of 30 over last year. The Theatre Guild announced that it would present its repertory in ten cities* -three more than the 1929 tour. And although Walter Hampden made known that he would not go on the road as in previous years because of poor business conditions, Funnyman Ed Wynn thought prospects were bright enough to buy Simple Simon (last season's Ziegfeld show in which he appeared) to take on tour...
...Serge Voronoff, gonad replacer, after a world tour last week returned to his 200 apes at Nice, France, prepared to proceed to his 3,000 sheep in Algeria. Of U. S. businessmen he remarked: "They die at the age of 50. They do not die in the sense that life is extinct. But they are exhausted, worn out, and as good as dead. Their lives are finished. It is due to the pace, the tempo of life in America, the price the American must pay for being ultra-modern...
...Annual national Air Tour for Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy. Start: Detroit, Mich...