Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadway's newest hit, State of the Union (see THEATER), a liberal airplane manufacturer plans a speech-making tour which he hopes will get him the Republican nomination for President. Before he leaves he gets some sage advice from a seasoned political boss: "Stay out of Minneapolis. That's Stassen territory...
...MacArthur's occupation policy; 2) came out for universal military training; 3) said he would not support isolationist G.O.P. Senator Henrik Shipstead for re-election next year; 4) hoped he could liberalize the G.O.P. Then he retired to catch up on his reading, before beginning a speech-making tour...
Charlie McCarthy, world-famed ventriloquist's dummy, began a two-year U.S. tour in which he hopes to put all 48 governors on the air-as stooges to a blockhead. His first victim, Oklahoma's big, burly Governor Robert Kerr, proved that a statesman could be as good a straight man as anyone else...
Saratoga Trunk (Warner) has been packed by expert hands with practically everything a film needs for a triumphant box-office tour. In the top drawer of this expensive portmanteau, Ingrid Bergman is wonderfully bewitching in a black wig and bustle, and Gary Cooper drawls and sprawls in his best skin-tight cow-pants. Edna Ferber's plot slides them expertly through a period-piece romance without missing one of the primary Hollywood emotions...
...height. Some say 12,000. By 1940, the population was down to 800. The citizens mined a little, published the weekly Epitaph, lived mostly in the past, lolling against the boarded-up false fronts. A few were guides who showed visitors around the adobe Bird Cage Theater museum (tour: 25^), a combined variety house, saloon, gambling house and brothel, where Sheriff John H. Behan and friends used to sit on the right and Marshal Wyatt Earp (who wanted to be sheriff) and his cohort sat on the left...