Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that armed Germans had already entered Danzig. Said he: "We have no desire to go against the territorial integrity of Poland. If we had wanted to let the matter come to military action, we could have done so any day. . . . There are no German soldiers going into Danzig with tourist skirts...
...found they could go to London for dinner and the theatre without being mobbed. In Paris, where they moved after living for a time at Illiec, a secluded Breton isle, life was just as calm. At dinner in the Crillon, at the theatre, no one except an occasional American tourist gawked at them. There were no autograph hunters...
...Chile, the Popular Front Government ordered deported Hans Voigt Schmidt, German State Railroads tourist agent in Santiago. His slip: receiving 100,000 anti-Jewish leaflets. Police charged German Railroads was planning a press and radio campaign to stir up political unrest and hatred of Chile's Jews...
...coal miners' children (ambitious to be doctors, lawyers, businessmen, teachers, actresses), the nine Morgantown boys and four girls, aged 16-19, had, with three exceptions, never seen a big city. First stop after they left their strike-bound coal fields was Washington, where they were bedded in a tourist camp, rose at 4:30 to begin sightseeing, ended the day marveling at how little work Congressmen did to earn their...
...perspective of peace ahead. The ribbons of trenches that crisscrossed Europe had been filled in, the post-War statesmen of revenge were out of office, the Soviet Union had turned from its program of international revolution to its program of internal development under the Five-Year Plan. U. S. tourist spending in Europe jumped over 350% between 1920 and 1928, building went on as rapidly as in any period of history, and if for a moment a steadily rising standard of living seemed an approachable goal for mankind, it was a measure of what continued peace meant, of what might...