Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Helen took after her father. He left her $10,000,000 and made her (with three of his sons) a trustee of his $84,000,000 estate. She ran up her $10,000,000 to an estimated $30,000,000. She invested in traction properties and made an annual tour of 7,000 miles to inspect them. A strange sister for brothers whose financial transactions and marriages made sensational copy for Hearst's Sunday papers, six was so busy and so devoted to her father that she did not find time to make her debut till...
...last week when investigators probed in the affairs of McKesson & Robbins, the great drug firm which had been defrauded by an expert crook. Among the strangest were old copies of Drug Topics found in the company's files which declared that McKesson & Robbins had "sponsored" a nationwide lecture tour in 1936 and 1937 "to consolidate the sentiment of retailers, manufacturers and businessmen generally behind the Robinson-Patman Law." The lecturer was Congressman Wright Patman of Texarkana...
...talking tour from Manhattan to Seattle and back, Wage & Hour Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews found businessmen worrying most about overtime pay for their higher salaried employes. Back in Washington last week, Elmer Andrews gave employers hope that they may soon be relieved of this wage-hour problem. Off-hand in press conference he indicated that he would accept an amendment to the law, perhaps a plan to remove restrictions on the hours of employes who get over $150 a month, have guaranteed annual vacations and other privileges, yet are not now exempt as executives or professionals. Whether his own legal...
...famed woman theologian, Dr. Georgia Harkness; two Bishops, Methodist James Chamberlain Baker of San Francisco and Episcopalian Henry Wise Hobson of Southern Ohio; and World's No. 1 Missionary Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, lofty-minded Methodist emissary to high-caste Hindus, who had just come from a tour of U. S. colleges (TIME...
Baker made arrangements with the Theatre Guild and Alfred Lunt, chucked his lucrative radio work, took Idiot's Delight on tour. Hailed as a natural for the hoofer role, he got rave notices. But the show did poor business, wound up its brief tour last week $10,000 in the red.* "Ten thousand dollars." said Baker, who is returning to radio to recoup before taking another crack at the stage, "is more than it was worth...