Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interior Secretary Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, on a flying tour of Alaska, was banqueted with a difference when he dropped in on little Barrow, the continent's farthest-north town. Eskimos dined him in the schoolhouse. Spécialites de maison: barbecued caribou, seal cheek, roast walrus heart, fried seal liver, candied whale meat...
Southern Cross. Because of its Negro player, Montreal had to cancel a Southern exhibition tour. But in the first game of the regular season Jackie belted four hits including a homer and he lost his jitters...
...Dewey, whose control of the state's Republican machine is just about vise-tight, was off on a tour of county fairs and party clambakes. He was acting precisely like a governor about to be renominated, which he is sure to be. Democratic U.S. Senator Jim Mead, whose war profits investigating committee had just about run out of headlines, was keeping in training by making speeches. He was acting exactly like a man who is going to be nominated for governor, which he is almost sure to be; the Democrats are stuck with their war-fraud investigator whether they...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, on his official Latin American tour (the Caribbean and Brazil), dropped in on sunny Puerto Rico with Mrs. Ike for a look around. They had to wait a few minutes...
...June, on his 14th tour of South America, he drew 25,000 persons in an open-air sports arena, the largest crowd ever to assemble for a concert in Buenos Aires. South American women fill his dressing room with flowers, but North American women are not so demonstrative, Said Arrau: "They are very far away. It is very difficult to make them become earthly...