Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME readers, whose interests extend beyond the railroad depot, often travel upon the ocean. Aboard ship they are deprived of that pleasure of opening a crisp copy of TIME on the day that they know their fellow subscribers and newsstand buyers are getting theirs. For their knowledge of world events they must depend upon a typewritten sheet printed each night by the radio operator, posted in a prominent place the following morning...
...travel drew a step closer to rail travel when Mr. & Mrs. D. J. Sullivan in St. Paul, Minn., bought a ticket for Rochester, Minn., climbed into a plane, enjoyed the scenery for an hour, inquired about landing time. "Rochester!" exclaimed the one addressed. "Why you're on the plane for Chicago...
...Jimmy" Walker, Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, Charles Evans Hughes, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. For those seeking entertainment, the most definite offering that the Union management can now make is the Jake Schaefer billiard exhibition in January. Last season Mr. Schaefer and Welker Cochran played to a full house. Several travel talks will be given,--the management hopes to secure some authority on the comparatively newly discovered city...
...Francis Grant Ogilvie (chairman of the British Geological Survey Board), took New York City as the illustration of what can happen to a district happily situated geographically. New York's tides fluctuate only four to five feet.* That helps shipping. The terrain changes practically not at all. Travel routes naturally converge toward the city. He recommended that the States of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut cede land for the formation of a State of Manhattan. The natural Manhattan area now contains 9,000,000 people, will in 40 years carry twice as many. The Russell Sage Foundation...
Died. The Rev. Joseph C. Hartzell, 86, onetime Methodist Episcopal Bishop of Africa, who during 46 years of church service averaged 35,000 miles of travel per year, never having an accident; from injuries inflicted by house-breakers on-June 1; in Cincinnati...