Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold content from that of 65½ milligrams of nine-tenths fineness to a value controlled between 49 and 43 milligrams by a French Treasury stabilization fund of 10,000,000,000 francs in conjunction with the U. S. Treasury and the British Exchequer. In plain English the tourist who has been getting about 15½ francs for his dollar in Paris will get about 21½ francs...
...Harvard, a Tercentenary freshman class of 1,050, each of whom had to average a new high of 75% in his College Board examinations, missed hearing President James Bryant Conant last week because he had sailed on the Queen Mary, tourist class, for a European vacation...
...them instead for $164,000 to the Spanish Government in 1926. Last week the 57-year-old Duke of Veragua was. for reasons unknown, executed in Madrid together with his brother-in-law, the 72-year-old Duke de la Vega. Meanwhile Government forces, before they were driven from tourist-beloved Ronda, the most picturesque "Picture Town" in Southern Spain, slew 800 Whites...
They have made no plans for their stay in England, but will travel through the country at their leisure. The Conants are travelling tourist-third, peace and quiet being the object of their trip. It was announced unofficially that President Conant was not expected to visit Oxford or Cambridge Universities...
...stopped at filling stations. At small Leon, Iowa, Governor Landon spied a barbershop in a hotel basement, hopped out for a shave. Afterwards he shook hands with most of 500 people who had gathered outside, singling out for special greeting a small boy in a cowboy suit. At a tourist camp on Des Moines' outskirts the caravan picked up six more carloads of newshawks and greeters, plus a motor-cycle police escort. Even though he kept in the back seat of his closed car, citizens along Des Moines streets knew that Alf Landon had arrived. The Republican nominee answered...