Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church (TIME, April 28). In quite another sense, it is my grandfather's church. He was its first pastor and preached there for 40 years. The "call" came when he was 22 and scarcely a year out of Princeton. In his journal, he calls the venture a "missionary tour to Pittsburgh." He traveled alone across Pennsylvania on horseback and the trip took 15 days (June 10 to June 25, 1829). His journal, kept on the way. is a masterpiece of detail-the price of horse feed-he drank a glass of milk at Harrisburg-a friend of his father...
...stage of Krueger's Auditorium in Newark stood Dwight Whitney Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico. Republican candidate for the U. S. Senate. It was 9 o'clock of a rainy evening. Mr. Morrow's blue-grey suit looked mussed and wrinkled after an all-day auto tour among Jersey voters. In his hand he held a manuscript, his first campaign speech, from which he was about to read. No hard-boiled political stumpster, he seemed shy and nervous before the 2,000 clerks, farmers, Negroes, laborers, socialites - Republican voters all - who packed the hall. A swift smile from...
...England air tour. Sponsors: New England Council. National Aeronautic Association...
...migrated to the U. S., formed the first stock company to devote itself to serious Yiddish drama. He discovered Playwright Jacob Gordin, had him write vehicles for the troupe, among them The Wild Man. From time to time he played other engagements at home and abroad, once touring the U. S. in The Merchant of Venice, as Shylock, whose lines he spoke in Yiddish while the other actors used English. Because adler means eagle in German, admirers dubbed him "The Eagle." Meanwhile the Eagle's brood increased. Suckled in the stage wings, they have all become capable actors...
...Europe last week Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony proceeded on its triumphal tour (TIME...