Word: tour
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tribute to Stanley Baldwin (TIME, Jan. 4) is going to be used by the Nuffield Trustees in conjunction with a scheme in which Government funds will be used to buy up to 25% of the capital stock of new factories set up in the areas Edward VIII used to tour. South Wales is to get several brand-new plants in which war explosives will be made, and in Lancashire a single new factory erected to fill projectiles with these explosives is to cost ?6,000,000 ($30,000,000)-or three times the sum given by Lord Nuffield...
...evaporate this popular view by submitting to the House of Commons a White Paper intended to "do something" for the Depressed Areas and based in great part on the advice of Sir Malcolm Stewart. It was he whom King Edward summoned just before leaving London on his last slumming tour to South Wales. Mr. Malcolm Stewart, as he then was, had long fought what seemed to him the do -nothing -for -the -Depressed -Areas policy of the Government. Sir Malcolm was knighted in the Honors List published last month (TIME, Feb. 8), and the White Paper of last week marked...
...ensuing week is singularly lacking in musical events. The Boston Symphony is on tour, treating New York with the latest Berg Violin Concerto which Dr. Koassevitzky presented here last week-end, and Symphony Hall will be empty except for Sunday afternoon when Gladys Swarthout, mezzo-soprano of opera, radio, and motion picture fame, will give a recital...
...country on behalf of his plan to appoint six new members to the Supreme Court. A few minutes later Secretary Steve Early was out handing a bulletin to the press. It denounced the report as "false" and "hostile": the President had no intention of making such a stumping tour...
...such intention was that the best remembered precedent for it was Woodrow Wilson's stumping expedition for the League of Nations. To that method belonged the stigma of failure and the bad aftertaste of an unpopular issue. Another reason was that if Franklin Roosevelt made such a tour it would be construed as an admission that the fate of his Court plan was precarious. Best reason of all was that Franklin Roosevelt had something that Woodrow Wilson did not have: the all-pervasive radio. He had scheduled a radio "fireside talk" for next week, and the Senate committee hearing...