Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diamond indictment and subsequent assault released a torrent of indignation in Greene County, whose citizenry foresaw that its nest of city rats was about to ruin the summer tourist trade. Thereupon, Governor Roosevelt, preparing to sail for Paris to visit his aged mother who is ill with influenza, appointed Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. to supersede the local prosecutor, clean up the Catskill's gangster colony...
...took three days for his confederates to raise the unusually high bail of $25,000. Greene County seemed determined to jail him or run him out of the neighborhood, where his activities menace the summer tourist trade (mostly peace-loving New York Jews...
...arrival in Manhattan of Charles, Count of Flanders, Prince of Belgium, second son of King Albert of the Belgians, was so unostentatious as to cause comment by ship-news gatherers. Flatly the Prince disavowed intentions to "study" any "conditions" in the U. S. Said he: "I am a tourist, just as you would be in my country...
...Because Easter is the height of the tourist season in Washington, President Hoover last week broke a 30-year custom by throwing open to visitors for 90 minutes each day the rolling parklike South Grounds behind the White House. "Glad to see you here!" he called in welcome to those who flocked past his portico. Despite his bothersome little cold he and Mrs. Hoover attended a sunrise service (it was cold and cloudy) at the amphitheatre in Arlington National Cemetery, later went to the Friends Meeting House. As usual on Easter Monday eggs were rolled, cracked, squashed and eaten...
...make $150 per year. Hookworm and tubercu- losis take a heavy toll. The hurricane of 1928 (called "San Filipe" by the natives) struck the island a $100,000,000 blow from which it is still staggering. The 1929 sugar price slump hit the island's chief source of income. Tourist trade, despite the fine big Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel in San Juan, is negligible because Porto Rico, as part of the U. S., is nominally Dry. Even the natives' greatest sport?cock fighting?is illegal, although this month the insular Senate passed a bill to permit...