Word: toured
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Funeral. The Defense Committee denied a report that it was planning to take the embalmed bodies on an agitating tour of U. S. industrial centers. A state law required that the bodies be burned or buried before sunset the Friday following Execution Tuesday. Boston health officials extended the time to Sunday. When the brains and hearts of the corpses had been removed for examination by Harvard medicos, Massachusetts returned what remained of its prisoners to their friends, who straightway sought a public hall for a public wake. But Boston hall owners refused to lease their property. Owners of the building...
...summer White House. General John Joseph Pershing called on the way home from visiting his father-in-law., Senator Francis E. Warren, of Wyoming, and reported the condition of U. S. cemeteries abroad, discussed disarmament. Mr. & Mrs. Michael Gallagher, Cleveland friends of the Coolidges, dropped in on a motor tour and the President told them he was sorry the flooded, muddy condition of "the location I use" in Grace Coolidge Creek prevented him from returning their turkey of last Thanksgiving with a trout dinner. Other-visitors included officials of the Post Office Department and Department of the Treasury, to report...
...North Sydney, Nova Scotia, far away from his tour-companions, Edward of Wales and George, his brother, in Alberta, gathered a distinguished group to bid the Prime Minister and Mrs. Baldwin farewell. It included Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King; National Defense Minister Col. J. L. Ralston; Postmaster General Hon. Peter J. Veniot. Sirens shrieked and the big liner moved away on its voyage across the Atlantic. Handkerchiefs waved, silk hats were lifted, last messages shouted. And gradually the great ship became like a rowboat on the horizon and eventually was seen no more...
Thus ended the 18-day tour (TIME, Aug. 1 et seq.) of the first British Prime Minister ever to visit the Dominion of Canada while in office...
...years, Mr. Foy is returning to the vaudeville stage for a farewell tour. The Fallen Star is the vehicle that takes him through the Keith-Albee theatres. This one-act sketch by Tom Barry tells of the plight of a once idolized actor who, in old age, is reduced to the position of doorman. Enthusiastic, Mr. Foy's friends urge him to revive Rip Van Winkle, one of the plays in which Joseph Jefferson toured the country...