Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt, equally active, sped from Washington to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor (see p. 27), made a triumphal 30-mi. tour of the city, swung back through Wilkes-Barre and other Pennsylvania towns, to Camden, N. J., Wilmington and Washington, only to start again, reinvade Brooklyn, have his hour upon the platform in Madison Square Garden, and finally go home up the Hudson...
...which has never been occupied, to Mrs. Simpson in case she would like to use it as her country place. Dignitaries received by His Majesty last week spread in restricted Mayfair circles an impression that the King, after he is crowned in May 1937, will set out on a tour of the Empire extending clear around the calendar to spring of 1938. This would include a Coronation Durbar at New Delhi in the winter of 1937-38, and this week officials in Whitehall were appalled by the prospect that Mrs. Simpson is apparently to accompany the King, married or unmarried...
...brought popular, vote-getting Frank Murphy back from his $18,000 job as Philippine High Commissioner to run for the $5,000 Governorship of Michigan. Month ago the redhaired, freckled, dynamic onetime Mayor of Detroit was so worried about his own chances that he got his Presidential patron to tour the State, sing his praises at every station stop. For a time on election night it looked as though Democrat Murphy's fears had been justified, but when the Detroit returns came in it seemed clear that Republican Frank D. Fitzgerald, the incumbent, had lost...
Pathe Films did the photography under the direction of Thomas Chalmers, editor of Pathe Topics. After a preview early next month for members of the University, the picture will make a tour of all the Harvard Clubs in the country...
...that President Conant has returned from his European tour he must give attention to the white rabbit that was pulled out of his hat during his absence. Undergraduate dissatisfaction with his "double or nothing" rule concerning the entertainment of women in the Houses has been expressed loudly many times during the past month, and with the cooperation of President Conant and the Masters a solution to the problem can doubtlessly be achieved...