Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed through Cambridge. It reached Worcester at 8:30 p. m. where the President had a rubdown and an hour's rest before delivering his major speech. The pack at Worcester knocked down a trolley pole and five people were injured, but the least enthusiastic hour of the tour was when Franklin Roosevelt drove down to board his train between lanes of silent curiosity-seekers...
from coast to coast. Emil F. Teichert, Vice-Presidential nominee on the Socialist Labor ticket, undertook a similar tour, had an automobile accident after four speeches, was laid up until last week. Nominee Aiken, however, is still touring, has visited over 100 cities. Last week he was in Altoona, Washington, Baltimore, Reading and Philadelphia. This week he speaks in Newark, Paterson, Jersey City and winds up where he began, in Manhattan, for as he solemnly says : "If our message is un heeded and the Reaction is victorious, never can it be said of the Socialist Labor Party that it ... failed...
...income taxes, whose evasion sent Public Enemy Al Capone to jail for eleven years in 1931, plus accrued interest at 12%, the Federal Government put up for sale Capone's gaudy island estate off Miami Beach, Fla. In Moab, Utah, his old armored limousine, on tour as a crime exhibit, was junked after a wreck. To University of Chicago students Lawyer Clarence Darrow observed: ''I think Al Capone got a terribly wrong deal ... an outrageous deal...
...three months this winter a thin. baggy-eyed Russian, considered by many to be one of the greatest of contemporary composers, will tour the U. S. For a fortnight in January he will conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, for another fortnight the Cleveland Orchestra. Contracts are pending whereby Igor Stravinsky may also appear with the bis symphony orchestras on the Pacific Coast. He will play the piano in joint recitals with Samuel Dushkin. the self-effacing violinist who is devoting his career to Stravinsky's music. Last week Stravinsky's autobiography was published...
...failed financially in spite of the indelible impression left by The Green Table, a scathing satire on the men who promote war (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933). Last winter the Jooss group staged its comeback, thanks in part to the booming interest in ballet. This year its tour will extend to the Pacific Coast, later on to the Orient...