Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation whose citizens trade and travel-that is to say, no nation which lives in neighborhood with other nations -need consider whether or not it will be a member of the community of nations. It cannot help itself. It may be a good member or a bad member, but it is a member by reason of the simple fact of neighborhood life and intercourse. The Bolshevik rulers of Russia are illustrating this. They have been trying to repudiate all the obligations resulting from their country's membership in the community of nations, and one result is that intercourse...
...year-old International Union of Students. From its headquarters in Prague, the I.U.S. had steered a course far closer to the mores and ideologies of students in Soviet-oriented countries than to those of U.S. campuses. But the I.U.S. boasts a constructive service program embracing relief and low-cost travel; only a tiny minority wanted to shy away completely from I.U.S. affiliation. What most delegates looked for--and evolved--was an affiliation scheme which would carry with it complete NSA independence from I.U.S. political activities...
...student international affairs there will be an acceleration of present activities by that commission in foreign exchange and foreign travel as well as in relief to the impoverished students of Europe. Cooperation with such agencies as World Student Service Fund, International Student Service, "Junior Year Abroad", and the Institute for International Education has been called for specifically. Furthermore NSA has secured a seat on the United States commission for UNESCO (international commission chairman Robert Smith 1G will occupy it) in an effort to take part in top-level intercultural activities. In the item personally crucial to many here-student travel...
...dollar-shy Canada, it was a windfall with a catch. Canadians, too, have the travel bug. In July, 35,336 Canadian cars visited the U.S. for 24 hours or more, a gain of 32% on July 1946. For the first seven, months of 1947, the total was 102,260, up 24%. How much money they left behind was still anyone's guess, but even with dollar restrictions it was likely to be more than last year's $126 million...
...that Jackie would have company when the Dodgers were on the road, Rickey persuaded a Negro newsman, Wendell Smith, to travel with the club. In two cities, Jackie said, he had hotel trouble; he was not welcome at the Chase, where the Brooklyn club stays in St. Louis, or at Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin. ("They fooled me," said Jackie. "I thought it would be St. Louis and Cincinnati...