Word: travelerism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel, in McCook, Neb. to dress up the dedication of a dam, peered at the razzle-dazzle in wonder and made a traveler's observation: "In my country we help our celebrations along with beer and whiskey. You people do it on coffee."
He started out with $300 in cash and traveler's checks, a $500 letter of credit-and by cutting his first corner. He had a friend in Honduras buy his T.W.A. round-trip plane ticket from San Francisco to Rome and mail it to him. That saved the 15...
Returned Traveler. In later, more edifying sessions the convention: 1) resolved in favor of admitting to the U.S. approximately 400,000 of Europe's D.P.s; 2) condemned the motion picture industry for glamorizing immorality; 3) planned a long-range program of education in race relations; 4) re-elected President...
They also heard from a Baptist layman who had been to Russia, but who was far cagier in his report than Traveler Newton had been. G.O.P. White House-hunter Harold E. Stassen voiced his "sober optimism" that the U.S. could win the peace by remaining strong and being wise, and...
This bird-brained little socialite, a fellow traveler like many other Italian bluebloods, would think just what Palmiro Togliatti, alias Ercole Ercoli, alias Mario Correnti, wanted her to think. He was out to conquer an essentially anti-Communist people through bloodless, "democratic" means. In just three years he had worked...