Word: travel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advertising. "We'll start again when we have something to advertise," he said. Having spent nearly half a billion on his railroad in the past 20 years, "Uncle Dan" now has something to advertise. He has authorized copy written this way: "70,000 of us invite you to travel...
...offers elder scientists is its presidency. President Thomas Hunt Morgan, 65, zoologist, director of the William G. Kerckhoff Laboratories of the Biological Sciences at California Institute of Technology retired at last week's meeting. His 1932 successor, Professor Franz Boas, 73, Columbia anthropologist, was too ill to travel from Manhattan to New Orleans to assume office. In his absence the A. A. A. S. chose his successor for 1933?Dr. John Jacob Abel, 74, Johns Hopkins' great pharmacologist, the crystallizer of insulin (hormone which controls diabetes) and synthesizer of epinephrine (hormone which regulates blood pressure). He is the first pharmacologist...
...Budapest it was suddenly discovered that the Countess Bethlen, a socialite playwright and wife of former Premier Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, was outside Hungary on a literary lecture tour. Furious Socialist Deputies demanded to know what "sinister influence" had procured the countess enough foreign money on which to travel? Or was she a criminal? Had she secret deposits abroad? What of the new Hungarian law obliging every citizen to put such deposits instantly at the disposal of the Government...
...professional stage hands who accompany the Princeton Triangle Club show around its Christmas vacation circuit travel next to the locomotive in the "animal car." They shoot crap with the boys and are very funny. Several years ago, when the Triangle was playing Manhattan's august Metropolitan Opera House, one denizen of the animal car quarreled with one of the Metropolitan's resident stage crew...
...where did Nominee Herbert Hoover make his millions? A onetime policeman named James O'Brien and a writer named John Hamill sought the answer at Republican headquarters, were vaguely told that Mr. Hoover has prospered by large and successful mining enterprises during his 20 years foreign travel and residence. Democratic headquarters could not give them more information. Still curious, O'Brien decided to have the Hoover past researched and publish a book thereon. He employed Hamill to travel abroad, gather material. As Hamill was completing this assignment, a quarrel with O'Brien developed. Hamill took his manuscript...