Word: toured
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From Lisbon, Portugal, World's Fairer Grover Whalen embarked for the U. S. after a three-month European tour to shore up his next year's show with foreign expositionists. Said Salesman Whalen: "My visit was satisfactory. I believe I can say all countries I visited will reopen their pavilions at the World's Fair, as well as Poland and Czecho-Slovakia...
...Governor General Frank received a Russian delegation arriving by special train. Two years ago Dr. Frank called Germany the "protector against Bolshevistic terror" and said that the Germans would have "no dealings with Communism in Moscow or elsewhere." But last week the visiting Bolshevists were treated to a ceremonial tour around the historic old city. Then they sat down to arrange details whereby 800,000 Ukrainians and White Russians in German-occupied territory would be handed over to the "Bolshevistic terror" in exchange for 100,000 Germans in Russian-occupied Poland who would return to the Nazi homeland...
...Montreal, a new revue called the Ice Vanities, produced by Bill O'Brien (promoter of the Vines-Perry professional tennis tours) and featuring Prague's Vera Hruba and Ottawa's Guy Owen, played to sellout crowds in the eighth stop of its U. S. and Canadian tour...
...Houston, Sonja Henie's Hollywood Ice Revue opened its 1940 tour-with a cast of 160 troupers, $65,000 worth of costumes and special icing machines capable of making 125 tons of ice for each performance. The tour is Sonja's farewell personal appearance...
...Erector sets--where are they? What has become of the Lightning Glider that used to nestle under the living room tree? They were thing worth getting up at six o'clock in the morning to go down and see! But now--well, Christmas is losing all its glamor. A tour of the toy departments of the department stores shows that you've not been standing still. Yours toys have been making great progress. Today's youngsters have it swell. Vag felt very lonesome the other day as the peered with amazement at some of the toys ticketed for lucky kids...