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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although it is possible to travel well in almost any part of Europe for $10 a day, and sumptuously for $20, the Soviet authorities are abstracting $99,000 from their 99 guests for a 30-day tour of Red Russia-$33.33 per tourist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Ninety & Nine | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...read in TIME some time (and several TIMES) ago, that Allan Hoover would not graduate this year because he was away from his studies on his father's South American good-will tour? Yet notice the picture and legend which I clip from the Boston Herald of June 30. Explain please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Able Allen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

King Ahmed Fuad of Egypt, fat and happy, now on an official tour of Europe, last week paid a surprise visit to the League of Nations at Geneva. He caused a mild panic among the staid members of the Secretariat. Little used to entertaining pompous monarchs who travel as does Egypt's Fuad with a small army of retainers, Secretariat members thought only in the nick of time to provide a throne for the dusky, red-fezzed potentate. Acting Secretary General J. A. M. C. Avenol, flustered in the absence of his chief, suave, assured Sir Eric Drummond, madly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Surprise Visit | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

When Marie of Rumania made her famed U. S. tour (1926), Her Majesty was scheduled to appear over the National Broadcasting Co.'s chain. She was to give one of her many endorsements. Temperamental, she at first attempted to call off her appearance, then arrived at the studio a half-hour before her time, indignantly departed when informed that she could not immediately go on the air. Radio men, including Mr. Sarnoff, followed her to Manhattan's Ambassador, argued earnestly, then acidly. When it was pointed out that Her Majesty was accustomed to having her will accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Radio into Talkies | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Philharmonic Travels. Next spring, between the close of Manhattan's symphony season (April 20) and Arturo Toscanini's engagement for the 1930 Bayreuth Festival (July), Mr. Toscanini will conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra on a European tour similar in time and locale to the Boston Symphony Orchestra's tour (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music Notes, Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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