Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month-long speaking tour-St. Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Newark, Worcester, Boston -Clare Luce had the biggest rallies of anyone except the national candidates...
Back in the Fourth District after her tour Mrs. Luce found a curious reversal of the normal political situation in the county. The normally Republican sections -the so-called "station-wagon" vote in commuting areas-did not do as well by her as they might, whereas the factory girls of industrial Bridgeport, normally New Deal voters, made her a kind of heroine...
Ingrid Bergman, passing through Manhattan on a war bond tour, said her next stop was Minnesota where "if I can't sell bonds in English. I'll sell them in Swedish." She divulged that she had dreamed for two and a half years of a Schrafft's hot fudge sundae, found they were no longer served because of the war. She planned to see Mae West's Catherine Was Great on Broadway, explained: "I want to see if there's anything I can learn from her. It may come in handy sometime...
...Hope, ski-nosed favorite of U.S. doughboys, who returned two months ago from a 30,000-mile tour of the South Pacific, was suspended by Paramount for failure to show up for work on a new picture, promptly announced that he had '"suspended" Paramount because "the boys come first. ... If somebody'll suspend the war, I'll be very happy to start another picture. . . . I'll give the country a nice rest How often can people stand to look at my kisser...
...time comes to root Japs out of other bypassed areas, such as Java and Malaya, observers do not doubt that the Diggers will be doing that rooting, too. The Diggers' rear-area assignment would not be the hardest life they had seen, but it would be no vacation tour...