Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Virtually everything else Nominee Roosevelt said in some 40 speeches in seven states last week was repetition and embroidery. Invading Nominee Landon's home-ground, he reminded cheering Kansans of the rise in wheat prices since 1932, observed that during his previous campaign tour there had been a lot of tourists passing through on freight cars while now they were riding in Pullmans. At Wichita he rapped tactfully at Governor Landon's balanced budget by declaring: "I do not believe that Kansas, any more than any other state, would have pulled through the difficult problems of the past...
Scheduled to introduce Kurtz is Gaspar G. Bacon '08, Republican candidate for governor of Massachusetts two years ago. Bacon, who is completing an intensive campaign of Pennsylvania and New York, will arrive just ahead of Kurtz who is now on a whirlwind tour of the doubtful Middle-Western states...
...President's tour of New England, considered probable Republican territory, comes at the same time his rival, Governor Alfred M. Landon, is campaigning in California which has been put in the Democratic column by many observers. Landon is due to make a swing back over the entire country before election, and the President yesterday intimated that he might undertake a final tour of Pennsylvania and Ohio with a major speech in Indiana...
First "Off the Beaten Path" tour occurred on the Pennsylvania R. R. last July when 200 railroad addicts left Philadelphia to spend a day junketing over little-used side lines, seeing little-seen countryside. The passenger list jumped to 500 for the second excursion over another route in August. Since then there have been some half dozen trips from New York, Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, Ind. Last week's was the first out of Chicago, was in many ways the best...
...Author Bruce Winton Knight, professor of economics at Dartmouth, gravely announces his argument: "Thus far in human history no formula has proved equal to the task of preventing more or less extended periods of peace." Purporting to solve that problem, How to Run a War is an ingenious pacifist tour de force, addressed to wealthy and politically powerful U. S. citizens who are "primarily responsible for American policies and opinions." As such, the book is filled with material that is likely to frighten good pacifists out of their wits...