Word: touring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fashions. As a rule Senator La Follette does not follow a fashion which anyone else has set. It apppears that the President has set a fashion, perhaps unknowingly, and that the Senator will follow it, perhaps unwillingly. Towards the middle of June Mr. Harding will start on a speaking tour of the country, and about the same time, according to his present plans, Senator La Follette will make a similar trip. Mr. La Follette, however, will exercise his inalienable right to individuality by making a "swing around the circle" in the reverse direction to that followed by the President...
Senator La Follette just announced his projected tour: " I have received so many invitations to speak from people in all parts of the country that I decided to accept some of these invitations. I hope very shortly to clean up my business here in Washington and go away for a little recreation to fortify myself physically, after which I will talk to the folks...
Leonidas C. Dyer, Representative from Missouri, whose AntiLynching bill was talked to death in the last session of Congress, is to make a tour of the West speaking in behalf of his bill. He hopes to talk it to passage in the next Congress. His speaking itinerary includes 17 cities, and his expenses will be paid by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Meanwhile an equivalent of his bill was passed with only one dissenting vote by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives...
...Fairs had a happy home till Mrs. Fair became a war-heroine. Then Mrs. Fair decided that woman's place was on the lecture platform and departed on a $30,000 tour of the country, leaving Husband to be consoled by a distressingly vivacious widow, Son to marry a poor but virtuous hello-girl, and Daughter to fall into the clutches of nicotine, complexion-clay and her mother's manager. But everything came out happily at last. The cast is pretty adequate, though not exciting-the direction and detail good...
...three of these men came to the United States late last fall at the invitation of the National Student Forum. Early in January they started a tour of the American colleges to bring before American undergraduates the growing importance of the "Youth Movement" in Europe and to create a better understanding between the United States and the countries they represent...