Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...East room a sober public Christmas tree, adorned with a scene of the Nativity, was set up while a family tree upstairs was decked with tinsel, colored lights. Mrs. Hoover had bookstores searched for travel and mystery books, the President's favorites. From all over U.S. poured in gifts for the President, mostly neckties and wristwatches. Fifty children of Cabinet members and other officials were invited to a special White House Christmas party...
Across the wasteland of Alaska there is now on trek a herd of 3,000 reindeer, mostly females, which is being driven from Nobuktulik to the Kittigazuit Peninsula in the Canadian Northwest. The herd started in November and is due in the spring of 1931, traveling via the Colville Basin (southeast of Point Barrow, northernmost point of Alaska) where it will spend the fawning season and summer, giving the fawns time to become strong enough to travel. When the herd arrives at Kittigazuit what is left of it will be bought by the Canadian Government which has become interested...
Woodrow Wilson went to the Paris Peace Conference on the S. S. George Washington. Last week Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, U. S. fiscal autocrat, compelled Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and the six other U. S. delegates to travel on the same ship to the London naval parley next month or pay their own expenses on another ship. Statesman Stimson had wanted to travel on the fast S. S. Bremen. The Comptroller's authority: The Merchant Marine Act of 1928 which specifies that U. S. officials must travel on U. S. ships "whenever available." To make...
...ATTENDED PROFESSIONAL CHILDREN'S SCHOOL WHEN YOUNG SENT TO BENNETTS BECAUSE SOME KIND WEALTHY LADIES THOUGHT I NEEDED FRESH AIR LIKE TO STUDY GREATEST AMBITION TO LIVE IN ITALY IN A COLD GARRET WRITE BAD VERSE AND DRINK YELLOW WINE WHEN I'M OLD WOULD RATHER TRAVEL A LOT DOING ODD JOBS THAN BE A DEPENDABLE INGENUE BUT I LOVE THE THEATRE ANYWHERE WON'T MAKE MUCH MONEY BUT MAYBE I'LL WRITE STOP THE UNIVERSE AROUND US A GRAND BOOK A FAREWELL TO ARMS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NOVEL THINK THE MOTION PICTURE A GRAND MEDIUM FOR ART PRODUCING...
Transcontinental Air Transport announced last week an augmented train plane schedule linking Manhattan with San Francisco. Transcontinental passengers now transfer at Los Angeles (Glendale Terminal Airport) and for $10 extra reach San Francisco about three hours later. Present (reduced) net charges for transcontinental air rail travel (New York to Los Angeles, over the Maddux Line which recently merged with T. A. T.) are: T. A. T., $267.43; Western Air Express, $211.20; Universal Air Lines System...