Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After being taken for a tour of TVA dams, power plants, etc. as a member of Congress' joint investigating committee, Republican Representative Tom Jenkins of Ohio snorted: "These great inland seas . . . may be beautiful playgrounds, but they will cost . . . more than the Panama Canal...
Except for five-time Champion Walter Hagen, who preferred the sidelines after his recently completed round-the-world exhibition tour, and onetime Champion Tommy Armour, who was ill, all the topflight professional golfers of the U. S. met last week in the Poconos, on the Shawnee Country Club course. It was their one big match-play tournament of the year: the championship of the Professional Golfers Association...
...hours before Franklin Roosevelt set out across the continent to separate "liberal" sheep from "conservative" goats (see p. 7), quietly out of Washington for a tour of his own slipped James Aloysius Farley, chief shepherd of all Franklin Roosevelt's political herds. No believer in griping party purges, Jim Farley's mission was to soothe feelings already hurt in primary fights, encourage sheep and goats to stampede all together in November. His first stop was at Fond du Lac, Wis., his second at Sheboygan, Wis., his third at Clinton, Iowa. Altogether, Shepherd James Farley planned to stop, look...
Rated by almost any standard, Gracie Fields is the world's most successful show-woman. She makes about $750,000 a year; $250,000 a picture, $5,000 a week when touring England in vaudeville, the rest from broadcasting and royalties on gramophone records, which sell a million a year. Far more extraordinary than her income is her popularity. Answering her fan mail costs $25,000 a year. In an average week, she gets 500 requests to open bazaars, beauty contests, etc., 350 a week to read new plays, thousands a week to launch new songs. In London, Gracie...
Editor of the Raleigh, Va. News and Observer, son of Josephus Daniels, Ambassador to Mexico, 36-year-old Jonathan Daniels began his tour of exploration at Arlington National Cemetery. On through Williamsburg, Author Daniels drove his Plymouth, wondering if he could locate in Warrenton the poker game that is said to have been going on ever since the Civil War, with hands descending from father to son. After he had driven through the textile towns of the Carolinas-Gastonia, Kannapolis, Spartanburg-he began to note the mansions of the Coca-Cola millionaires, and to speculate about their significance. "Wealth...