Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke and Duchess of Windsor attained a crescendo of anticlimax that was almost as newsworthy as the abdication. The crescendo started with the arrival in the U. S. last fortnight of a Mephistophelean little Franco-American efficiency expert, named Charles E. Bedaux, as advance agent for the proposed Windsor tour of the U. S. to study housing and industry, scheduled to start this week (TIME...
...which Efficiency Expert Bedaux began by ignoring. Apparently concerned mostly with the fact that the most gala entertainments arranged for the Windsors were a dinner at the home of the British Ambassador in Washington and a luncheon at the White House while Mrs. Roosevelt was away on a lecture tour, he set off for Washington to persuade the State Department to help put the Windsor tour on a more appropriate footing. By this time, he had informed the U. S. that the correct way to address the couple-whom he punctiliously avoided calling by name, referred to them...
...Washington, where he arrived with a representative of the New York advertising firm of Arthur Kudner, Inc., thus giving the Windsor tour an unfortunate commercial air, Efficiency Expert Bedaux's reception at the State Department was cool. Even cooler was his reception by a group of reporters invited to cocktails at the Mayflower Hotel, which hoped to accommodate Mr. Bedaux's friends when they arrived. Efficiency Expert Bedaux failed to improve matters when, asked whether he was paying for the Windsor tour, he gave a noncommittal answer indicating that...
During the week the Debating Council has also met teams from Holy Cross, Radcliffe, and Brown. This extensive series of debates is a part of the proposed enlargement of debating activities to be culminated by a six weeks tour next February and March...
Featuring the tour this year is a stop at Bermuda which will be made during Christmas week...