Word: tours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate; and Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, because he is dry, and chiefly because his hold upon Ohio, with 24 electoral votes, is an outstanding phenomenon of U. S. politics. It was not solely to improve his health that Governor Donahey prepared last week to make an extensive tour of the South...
What the Transcript acknowledged as a tour de force, what the other papers recognized as a source of good pictures, the production of the Dramatic Club last night, for a number of noteworthy reasons, received the greatest popular support that has for a long time been accorded its plays. With "The Moon Is a Gong", and the "Taming of the Shrew" in its immediate past, the club need not be praised for its progressiveness or ambition in producing the unproduced "Hassan". But what may be warmly approved, is successful concession to the general taste, without relinquishment of the spirit...
...left for Chicago, Canada and the Pacific Coast, whence they will return to sail again for Europe. At the Manhattan office of J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp., banking associates of Captain Loewenstein, officials of the firm declared that at least $100,000 would be spent "without ostentation" on the tour...
...Philippines won a judges' decision of 2 to 1 over the Harvard forensic team at Paine Hall, Saturday night. The question argued was: "Resolved, That the Philippines should be given complete and immediate independence." This victory is the thirteenth straight that the Filipinos have won during their United States tour...
...crusade of the debating team from the University of the Philippines to prove that their country is ready for independence kept its record clear by defeating Harvard last Saturday. So far in their tour of this country the islanders have won the votes of every audience they have faced, and no doubt they hope that such expressions of opinion will have effect in determining the policies of the "imperialistic" powers in Washington...