Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...VicePresidential Special" was off on a 31-day tour. Candidate Warren planned to make 25 speeches and 57 platform appearances in 30 of the 48 states. A politician of considerable consistency, he had set the tone and spirit of his campaign within the first 24 hours...
Stories & Lemon Drops. From the moment that the Warren train pulled out of Sacramento, the atmosphere aboard resembled a good-will tour. The whole first day, in his invariable double-breasted suit, Candidate Warren had roamed informally through the cars, swapping stories, munching lemon drops to keep his voice in trim, inviting newsmen back to inspect his own quarters. He arranged to have lunch with a few newsmen every day "so you can get to know me better...
Waving goodbye from the platform of his spic & span railway car, hitched on to a string of 16 other railway cars, Harry Truman rolled out of Washington on his 9,000-mile coast to coast tour...
...went back but she only stayed until midnight. She had to drive the Boss and the President on a tour of the battlefields on the next day. When she left the party was "just shifting into high gear." She thought the President "must be a very sound sleeper as well as a very tolerant father." Kay cornered Mike Reilly, boss of the Secret Service contingent guarding Roosevelt. "Here you are on duty," she chided, "and half of your men are tiddly." Mike replied: "We're tough, Kay. Have...
After the war Kay came to the U.S., stayed in the WAC (in which she had been commissioned despite her British citizenship). She had already applied for U.S. citizenship. Demobilized last year, she now lives in Manhattan, is planning radio broadcasts and a two-year U.S. lecture tour...