Word: traveled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pundit, patron, promoter of the New York Antique show is white-haired, amiable George W. Harper, Wesleyan graduate, onetime corporation lawyer and Belmont Estate attorney, rabid antiquarian. Four years ago Mr. Harper had a nervous breakdown, was ordered by his doctors to give up his business, travel, find and ride a hobby. He already had a hobby: antique furniture. With his wife he went to London hunting Hepplewhites. He arrived just as a great antique exhibition, organized by the London Daily Telegraph, opened at the Crystal Palace. Never before had Mr. Harper seen so many works of art assembled...
...extended visit late summer to early winter in this country leads me to believe that anyone may travel for weeks and months even into the interior and remote banovinas with perfect safety. Your ominous Sarajevo I found quite sunny, pleasant and even amusing...
...this railroad-bus relationship was concluded between the Pennsylvania R. R. and the Greyhound Corp., one of the biggest U. S. bus lines, said to be controlled by the Pennsylvania. The arrangements were for a coordinated rail-bus service between New York, Chicago, and St. Louis, passengers to travel in busses by day and pullmans at night. Especially strategic is the deal at this time, as the Parker Bill for federal regulation of busses may soon be passed and serve to stabilize motor transportation...
...Travel and commerce were first encouraged by the European trade fairs. Despite modern advertising with resultant mass-distribution, European buyers thronged last week to two great fairs. The biggest was the Leipzig Trade Fair, held twice a year for the last seven centuries. In a display space of over 60 acres, 185,000 buyers examined more than 10,000 exhibits which had been sent by some 20 countries. U. S. manufacturers displayed more than 100 products. The other was the Lyons Industrial Fair, with 1,500 exhibitors from 24 countries. Typical of the various groups of exhibits was that...
...order to urge the adoption of new sports, such as, pelota, kif-kif and the pengo. (Especially the latter.)" He possesses the original manuscript of Bishop Heber's famed hymn, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." Other books: Argonaut and Juggernaut, Who Killed Cock Robin?, Discursions on Travel, Art and Life, Be fore the Bombardment...