Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...master stroke on the part of shrewd General Manager Branch Rickey of the Browns' National League rivals, the highly successful St. Louis Cardinals. The St. Louis park in which both Cardinals and Browns play belongs to the Ball estate. The Cardinals, who attract bigger crowds on tour than they do at home, have long wanted to play night games, permissible in their league. Because night games have been banned in the American League, the owners of the Browns refused to install lights. Last week, by threatening not to buy and improve the team unless they were permitted to play...
Representatives of the Vantine studies will start their tour of the Houses with Adams on Monday and Tuesday, November 23 and 24, and will travel thence to Dunster on November 25 and 27, Leverett and Winthrop on November 30 and December 1, and Eliot and Kirkland on December 2 and 3. The circuit will end up with a grand climax at Lowell House, where the photographers will stay four days, from December...
...Jersey's Senator-elect William Henry Smathers, hunting in Berwick, Pa., barely missed being shot by his secretary. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., to Sea Island Beach, Ga. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to Buenos Aires for the Pan-American Conference. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, a speaking tour of twelve lectures in 16 days. Said she: "I plan to try to plan my time better so as to have a more peaceful time...
...family possessions. They seem to be everywhere except where a scholar might be expected to look for them. Thus Caulaincourt's great memoir of Napoleon (TIME, Dec. 2) turned up in the wall of an old chateau; the manuscript of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides was found in an old croquet box. A valuable pack of the letters of Vincent van Gogh was located in the belongings of a family in Winter Park, Fla., far from where that tormented artist ever thought of traveling. Last week two more neglected literary treasures made their appearance...
...midshipmen expressed a desire to take a look around the University, a request which was relayed by H.A.A. officials to the Student Council. Although 1200 will arrive not all are expected to tour the Yard, but those who desire to see the academic set up of the eleven they face in the afternoon will be taken care of by five guides, each capable of leading around...