Word: touring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herr Kapitan-Lieutnant Helmuth von Muecke, commander of the cruiser Emden during the World War, plans an American lecture tour to acquaint ignorant, eager audiences of the marauding deeds of his vessel. Surprisingly enough, there is an avalanche of protest. An honest raider, perceiving that there is almost as much money in lecturing as in writing Memoirs, proposes to turn an honest penny by presenting to us such interesting, vivid pictures as the blowing up of passenger ships and the sinking of army transports...
Since his graduation from Union Theological Seminary in 1912, Professor Harlow has taught sociology and acted as chaplain at International College. He is now in this country on a lecture tour...
...French Debts, and American Obligations". Dr. Mez is a well known writer and lecturer on foreign affairs, and came into considerable prominence' as the Correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung. He was secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of Mannheim from 1908 to 1910. When David Starr Jordan made a tour of Europe for the International Conciliation movement, he accompanied him as his secretary and co-lecturer. In 1913 he acted as organizer and interpreter for Norman Angell in his lecture tour in Germany in the interests of peace between that country and England. That same year he attended the International...
...member of the French Chamber of Deputies. He believes that the only practical plan for the reconstruction of the devastated areas lies in the collaboration of the peoples of France and Germany, acting on the plans outlined by the Frankfort Conference in April, 1922. He has already, in his tour of the United States, spoken in New York, and addressed a large audience in Symphony Hall last evening on "Europe after the World War". In this he showed the political and economic consequences of the Versailles Treaty, and discussed the French reparations propram and the scandalous profiteering in devastated France...
However, of late the custom of tours, presidential and otherwise has become firmly rooted and M. Poiret is never behind the times. Accordingly he undertook a tour of America. The first objectionable feature was the Statue of Liberty; the lady was the first in his experience who did not recognize his ways; could it be that she was America's ideal...