Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presently he went on to discuss minimum wages and hours of Labor. He recited from memory the text of a note which he had sent the late Gus Gennerich to get from a weeping girl who stood beside the line of march on his triumphant tour of New England before election: "Dear Mr. President...
Died, Dr. John Gresham Machen, 55, peppery Philadelphia Fundamentalist; of lobar pneumonia; in Bismarck, N. Dak., where he had paused on a speaking tour...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra is on tour this week and so the city's chief musical adornment will not he heard until Friday the fourteenth when Dmitri Mitropoules is to be the guest conductor. However, this does not mean that there is a dearth a concerts. On the contrary, there are no less than nine musical events in Boston and Cambridge in the ensuing week...
...what he called the "greatest conflict between moral and civil rights" in Pennsylvania's history, Governor Earle made his position clear at the outset of his tour. Virtually all anthracite miners are descendants of English, Irish. Welsh and Slavic laborers imported for the purpose since 1830. "The operators,'' said the Governor, "brought these people into the mining regions and made millions off them. Then they suddenly closed down the mines and said, 'Go make your living on thin air.' I am afraid there can be no solution until the operators recognize their moral obligations...
There is no question as to whose Spanish barricades Mr. Langdon-Davies is behind. In the course of his 1,000-mi. tour of provinces and towns in loyalist possessions he interviewed Government officials, militiamen, frightened middle-class intellectuals, anarchists, officers and police officials, emerging convinced that stories of Red atrocities have been wildly exaggerated, that the civil war was the result of fascist provocation, that no working-class revolution threatened the Spanish Republic before the attempted coup d'etat of General Franco on July 18. The author writes so much about the wretched reporting of Spanish politics...