Word: tour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Messersmith's probable successor was smooth, amiable James Bruce, 54, vice president of the National Dairy Products Corp. Son of Maryland's onetime Democratic Senator, Princeton-mate of Navy Secretary James Forrestal, James Bruce was no trained diplomat. Aside from a short tour as assistant military attache in Rome, and as special representative in Montenegro for the Versailles peace conference, he had stuck to banking and finance...
Having served in the Navy during the war, the new director, Monro, is a veteran himself as well as having been connected with the University, except for his tour of duty, ever since his graduation from the College...
...month of August President Conant said he will be vacationing in the far west. From here, he noted, it will be easy for him to make a September tour of the Harvard Clubs on the Pacific Coast, which have been clamoring for him since...
...Visitor in the Night. To raise money for his political organization, the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons, Zik spent months driving trucks over Nigeria's bumpy roads, walking when there were no roads, visiting hundreds of villages. He collected ?13,500. According to Zik the tour was a success. Says Zik, "Some of the Hausa emirs who were appointed by the British came to see me in the night. They promised me money and moral support...
...Gentleman & a Student. When Zik leaves the U.S. in four weeks, he will join six other Nigerians in England for a barnstorming tour to tell the Nigerian story. He hopes to say a few words about his preference for the next Governor of Nigeria. If it must be an Englishman, Zik hopes it will be the Duke of Windsor (see PEOPLE), whom he considers "a gentleman, a student of human nature, a man with a sense of justice." But in the long run he wants an African governor for Nigeria and, like the Pirates on the day he arrived...