Word: toured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indiana allowed himself to be heard hammering down the planks which the Presidential feet will tread during the coming drama. In comparative isolation aboard the Pioneer, Mr. Harding was apparently keeping his own counsel and making his own plans. It is understood, however, that in a nation-wide tour next summer the President will make 20 speeches-in which case he will have to have something to talk about. Inasmuch as the President seems by all odds the man most likely to head his party's ticket in 1924, Republican leaders are naturally interested. The subjects of the President...
...appears that there is more to the " fireproof coal" scandal than a mere Hearst tour de force. Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania has been enlisted in an aggressive war against a group of coal swindlers in his state. The names of 28 Pennsylvania producers and sellers of adulterated coal have been published under state authority...
...cabled the Consuls at Riga and Reval to vise her passports. Mme. Kalinin insists that no political capital will be made out of her visit. She is coming in response to the invitation of the American Committee for Relief of Russian Children to make a two months' tour of the United States, as representative of the Central Committee of the Rus-sian Red Cross Society. Her purpose is to appeal for aid for the famine stricken orphans of Russia. "Firstly and chiefly," said she, "I want to thank the people of America. . . . We have millions of orphans who need...
Anton Lang, who will visit this country with 100 other actors of the Oberammergau Passion Play, earned 27,000 marks after rehearsing eleven months. Shoes cost 50,000 marks a pair, with other living costs in proportion. The players are forced to their American tour by their financial straits. They have again refused a $1,000,000 movie contract...
Alvin Owsley, national commander of the American Legion: "When I heard that the Crown Prince of Germany is thinking of making a lecture tour in the United States, I made a speech in Jacksonville asking Americans to tell their own story of the war before welcoming any enemy aliens...