Word: travels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Corn Cobbers. In Manhattan, two Australian flyers, tired of waiting for travel orders home, applied for New Jersey farm jobs...
Political Swings. In Chicago, dancing teachers introduced the Dewey Dip, "a sedate jive with three samba steps dropping into a dip," and the Roosevelt Roger, a step with "lots of action, whirlabouts, and plenty of travel." Pitch Battle. In Philadelphia, the police broke up a fight between a man with a knife and a man swinging a guitar in his left hand, a mandolin in his right...
...Georgia schoolteacher, wanted to be a sergeant, instead serves as executive assistant to Colonel Hobby. To solid, jolly but no-nonsense Colonel Rice come male majors, colonels, generals with gripes about the WACs. Her own gripe is that she is stuck in Washington, seldom gets a chance to travel...
...stopped over in Manhattan to talk to Wendell Willkie. A joint Willkie-Dulles communique described their visit as a "full exchange of views not animated by partisan considerations." Then he motored on to the capital, using special gasoline coupons; his doctor said he was not up to train travel. (On his return from the conferences with Cordell Hull, Dulles underwent a two-hour operation on his foot.) In Washington, Mr. Dulles talked with G.O.P. leaders as well as Cordell Hull. Among them: Senators Taft, Vandenberg, Austin, Capper, Hiram Johnson-in effect, all shades of Republican opinion...
Madame Chiang Kaishek, who arrived in Brazil in July for a three-month "rest-cure," prepared to travel on to the U.S. for "badly needed" medical treatment...