Word: tours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reed. To Dallas, Tex., rival of Houston, went Candidate Reed, rival of Smith. Frowning like a sulky Ulysses, he began a stumping tour with stumps at Tulsa, Kansas City, Denver (Feb. 23),* Albuquerque (Feb. 24), Phoenix (Feb. 26), Los Angeles (Feb. 27), San Francisco (March i), Reno (March 3), perhaps Salt Lake City, perhaps Omaha...
...Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, will make a tour of the Middle West on behalf of the Associated Harvard Clubs. Mr. Bingham will speak at the Harvard Clubs of six cities concerning athletics at the University. He leaves Sunday night, March 4, for Chicago, where he will talk at a luncheon on Monday. The following four days will be spent speaking at dinners in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. He will end his trip with a luncheon at Buffalo on Saturday...
Milk was a favorite beverage of that earnest temperance reformer, the late Thomas Cook (1808-1892). He became a travel agent through promoting excursions to temperance meetings, circa 1841; but his field became international and finally circumnavigatory when he organized the first world tour for tourists in 1872. Perhaps his proudest moment came when Thomas Cook & Son exclusively arranged the transport of that British army which sailed up the Nile to relieve General Gordon at Khartoum (1884). Since then "Cooks' " has stood in travel service for something equivalent to "Sterling." Today the Chairman of "Cooks'," a Knight...
Lauder. Now on his "5th Annual Farewell Tour" of the U. S. is Sir Harry Lauder. Last week in Manhattan he rang a new change on his old story of how, when his son John was killed in the War, he pocketed his grief "and was singing for the Tommies four days later." Last week he claimed that, although stricken with grief at the death of Lady Lauder (TIME, Aug. 8), he has again mastered himself and "Now I find singing the only way to forget...
...persons lacked work. One-third (250,000) of the soft coal miners of the country had no jobs. "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey, who in 1894 led Coxey's workless "Army of the Commonweal of Christ" afoot from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, last week at Manhattan said that on a tour from Boston to Minneapolis since last June he had found "25% of the factories idle in the territory covered." He is considered a reliable, although theatrical, observer...