Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian Ambassador to France, Count Gaetano Manzoni, delivered last week to the French Foreign Office the Italian Government's official ''regrets" that Italian cadets and students recently shied stones at the French Consulate at Bari-a direct result of Signor Benito Mussolini's inflammatory speaking tour (TIME...
Back in the U. S. from a tour of Chinese famine areas, Grover Clark, prominent in the U. S. colony for more than a decade, former editor of the Peking Leader reported last week that in the past year 5,000,000 Chinese have starved to death. He predicted that 2,000,000 more will die of starvation during the Summer...
...cowboy until 1905 when he went on tour with Col. Zachary Mulhall's Wild West Show. One night in Madison Square Garden a steer broke loose and jumped over the rails into the audience. Rogers roped it and was given so much publicity that he was booked in Keith's Union Square Theatre in an act of his own. Sitting on a pony in the middle of the stage he chewed gum, spun a rope, cracked jokes. Later, in the Follies, where he appeared without the pony, he chewed and drawled for 20 minutes his homely, immensely witty comments...
Last week Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski cabled Manager George Engles of Manhattan that he would definitely return to the U. S. next autumn, make his seventeenth U. S. tour, postponed this year on account of an appendectomy (TIME, Dec. 2). Pianist Paderewski has accepted, despite his 69 years, a coast-to-coast tour involving some 75 concerts. The only dispensation he asked: "a mild winter...
...taxied to the flying field. He was still officially "M. Carol Caraiman," for he renounced even his family name of Hohenzollern when he abdicated as Crown Prince (TIME, Jan. n, 1926). His father King Ferdinand was then alive. His mother Queen Marie had yet to make her U. S. tour. Not until venerable King Ferdinand died 17 months later was Carol's bonny five-year-old son proclaimed King Mihai (TIME, Aug. 1, 1927). As he waited at the bleak Munich airdrome last week Carol talked earnestly with two members of Prime Minister Juliu Maniu's Cabinet who had flown...