Word: toured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knoxville, Tenn., where Senator Vic Donahey's TVA investigating committee was assembling for an inspection tour, Dr. Morgan took advantage of TVA's corporate status to file a civil suit against it. He sued in a local chancery court instead of in U. S. District Court, where TVA would prefer to answer his demands for: 1) $2,916.66 back salary accrued since the President fired him March 23 for obstructing TVA affairs and contumacy; 2) recognition as TVA chairman, on the ground that the President had no authority to discharge...
...only three weeks' rehearsal in the part, she became an overnight rage, paid off Covent Garden's ?11,000 debt in a year. When a cholera plague shortly afterwards put Covent Garden in the red again, Fanny's father took her to the U. S. on tour...
...drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks." Taking this gloomy pronouncement by Captain Shotover in Heartbreak House as his text, Author Shaw wrote On the Rocks to while away the tedium of his world tour in 1933. Last week, its belated cut-price U. S. premiere brilliantly rounded out the Federal Theatre's season...
...inclusive cost of the tour will be from $40 to $45. Unmentioned in the tourist plans was the fact that all U. S., French, British passports are stamped NOT VALID FOR SPAIN, also the unlikelihood that none-too-friendly France would permit mere tourists to cross her borders to Rightist Spain. But where France might prove stubborn on this score, friendly pro-Fascist Portugal might well prove amenable...
...firm conviction that any fairly good heavyweight boxer could put the great Gargantua [460-lb. Congo-born gorilla now on tour with the Ringling circus] to sleep or to rout within two minutes...