Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week these names made these news: In Northampton, Mass. "The Beeches," home of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, has been for sale since last winter. Last week it was revealed that Mrs. Coolidge. now touring in Denmark, had purchased a large lot opposite the Northampton home of her good friend & fellow tourist, Mrs. Florence B. Adams, with whom she has been living...
...meeting opened, Franklin Roosevelt was paying his first visit to Cleveland's Great Lakes Exposition. Composed of as many women as men, among them a goodly proportion of Roman Catholics, the 8,153 delegates and alternates represented about 25 states. The great majority boarded at tourist camps and lodgings. Poor but loud, they burst into a 17-minute demonstration when Father Charles Edward Coughlin first appeared to "democratize ' his Union, hitherto a one-man show, put steam into its campaign to elect Representative William Lemke U. S. President in November...
...speculative motorists who often wonder how the thousands of roadhouses and tourist camps which line U. S. highways make a profit, the sociology department of Southern Methodist University last week gave an answer. Most of such resorts, according to S. M. U., are chiefly used as places of assignation...
...sociologists made an exhaustive survey of tourist camps near Dallas, Tex., discovered that nearly 75% of the patrons were not tourists at all, but local couples who used the cabins few about an hour. Many proprietors admitted that "couple trade" was the foundation of their business. Some even admitted discouraging legitimate tourists because they stayed all night, brought less revenue than local lovers. In one camp, a series of "couples" rented one cabin 16 times in one night. In ten weeks, one camp was patronized by 254 "couples," 109 of whom came from Dallas. Only seven gave their right names...
With U. S.-German trade thus apparently due to sink toward zero, U. S. citizens this week could still buy at reduced rates for travel in Germany Tourist Marks. In Washington and in Berlin technical experts believed that surely President Roosevelt and Chancellor Hitler will now find it necessary-as foreseen by foxy Dr. Schacht-to open negotiations and make a brand new deal on U. S.-German trade...