Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearst's Post-Intelligencer and the Scripps-Canfield Star vociferously favored the Mayor's recall while the conservative home-owned Seattle Times fumed against "foreign-owned press caterwauling." Many a Seattlite was grieved to see this dirty municipal contest come to a head at the height of tourist season. In fact the recall election was postponed a week on protest of the Seattle Lodge of Elks, hosts for their order's national convention, because "the turmoil and agitation would have a most adverse effect" on the brother Elks' appreciation of the city...
...French Line, M. Laval reminded the Chamber, operates not only transatlantic, trans-Mediterranean and Far East services (to French Indo-China) but has pioneered French Morocco as a tourist playground, built in the oases of its deserts a chain of de luxe hotels. With depression striking everywhere, M. Laval found it possible to understand how the French Line has incurred a deficit, asked the Chamber to guarantee in the name of the State a $6,000.000 French Line bond issue. "The Campagnie Generate is not the only navigation company now in trouble," wound up M. Laval. "I might cite...
...sought no record, would bear no diplomatic tiding. He had confided in the State Department only to obtain permission for flying over foreign lands. But whether he wills it or no, it became evident that the flyer cannot escape good-willing. Inevitably, his flight must have significance. The Philippine Tourist Association cabled: "Commercial aviation in the Philippines desperately needs stimulation. Come help us." Chinese aviation interests saw a "great step" toward establishment of trans-Pacific commercial air routes. Japanese newspapers banzaied with joy. The Tokyo Hochi Shimbun, backer of luckless Seiji, promised to send him soon with a new plane...
...MacMillan will make his annual skirt of Labrador and Baffin Land, this time with a flotilla of three boats. Antarctica. A tourist trip to Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Little America last Antarctic summer was abandoned, may occur next December. Last season Consul Lars Christensen, Norwegian whaling tycoon, steamed completely around the Antarctic Continent, looking out for whale feeding grounds and spotting a few landmarks. Sir Douglas Mawson, the Australian, spotted a few more. Africa- On Jan. 27, 1863 the late David Livingstone took a sheet of blue foolscap* and wrote to "His Excellency the Governor of the Cape...
...gardens of resort hotels, to slide along the cobblestoned streets of Funchal in steel-runnered sledges drawn by bullocks. Honeymoon couples continued to play tennis. Last week the British cruisers London and Curlew slipped into Funchal harbor. Royal marines went ashore to throw a cordon round the three largest tourist hotels. British tourists having been thus protected, the Portuguese Government was left free to suppress the Madeira revolution as best it could...