Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the long bull market, the New York Stock Exchange became a focus of interest to tens of thousands of new small investors and speculators all over the land. Since taking over the presidency from Edward Henry Harriman Simmons in 1930, Mr. Whitney has not had time to travel so far & wide through the land making speeches as did his predecessor (only eight formal speeches in 16 months). But had he spoken last week in Houston or Minneapolis, Atlanta or Detroit, Denver, Seattle or San Francisco, he would have had thoroughly attentive audiences. The place where he did speak...
...Manhattan publisher; she was editorial factotum on a woman's magazine. He courted her with picnics, omnivorous enthusiasm, awkward gestures: finally she gave in, married him. At first they had a grand time, especially when Tim's stories had begun to make enough so that they could travel. But from the day his God's Own Country (Main Street) became a best seller dated all of Susan's troubles. Success inevitably went to his head and he further bamboozled himself by drinking. Susan was always technically faithful but Tim gave her many a cause for anxious jealousy. Once she gave...
...possible to have a profound knowledge of literature and never leave your bedroom. To speak authoritatively about, painting you must travel. To appreciate El Greco alone a critic must have visited galleries in London, Dresden, Madrid, Toledo, New York. This week Pittsburgh, Pa. repeated its annual claim to a place on the art critic's itinerary. The 30th annual International Exhibition of the Carnegie Institute opened. On hand were 496 pictures by 281 artists from 16 countries. Judges were assembled. Prizes were awarded. It was a big affair...
...expedition. Twelve men will go with him from Ecuador across the Andes and down the Amazon to the Atlantic this winter. Each man will pay $5,000. That will cover all his expenses and equipment except clothing, cigarets and liquor. He will have a personal Indian valet; will get travel. Inca exploration, fishing, hunting, mountain-climbing, a four-month vacation. No women, not even Mrs. Dickey will go along. On the last Orinoco trip Dr. Dickey, 25 years a physician in the tropics, told her not to eat native raw vegetables unless she first washed them with permanganate of potash...
...quietly to liquidate the scandals of the Harding regime; and Hoover is now watching the liquidation of 'Coolidge prosperity.' " The War was a calamitous setback to the U. S. Dream. "The prospect is discouraging today, but not hopeless. . . . We have a long and arduous road to travel if we are to realize our American dream in the life of our nation, but if we fail, there is nothing left but the old eternal round. The alternative is the failure of self-government, the failure of the common man to rise to full stature, the failure...