Word: trip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fairbanks was the farthest point of the President's journey to Alaska. There the first really untoward event of the trip occurred. Mrs. Harding took to her bed. Through all the travails of the strenuous tour up to that point, Mrs. Harding had held out bravely. There exhaustion overcame her, and Brigadier General Sawyer, her physician, ordered that she remain...
...party's following stop was at Spokane. There the President was taken on an automobile trip by the Governor and the state's two Senators and shown motion pictures of the region, the reason being that Washingtonians desire the Federal Government to undertake an irrigation project there, costing about $250,000,000. That evening at Spokane, Mr. Harding delivered an address on "unlocking the treasure house of our national resources." Without committing himself to the Columbia Basin plan, he advocated a gradual development of national resources...
Eight hundred and seventeen first cabin passengers, 450 second, and 450 third-paying about $500,000 in fares -sailed on the great liner. Among the more prominent were Albert D. Lasker, former Chairman of the Shipping Board and its special representative for the trip, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, William Vincent Astor, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (daughter of the late Theodore Roosevelt), Representative Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, and in the second cabin John W. Slack, postal machinery manufacturer of Silver Creek, N. Y., who recently made unprecedented "fake...
Said Mr. Lasker: "When we took the trial trip the Leviathan was not booked for 40% (for the present trip) . . . but after her return . . . hundreds of applicants were turned away at the offices of the United States Lines. . . . This is the first time in the history of shipping that a new boat has gone out loaded to capacity...
...first American teacher to go to England in the series of exchange visits proposed by Mrs. Alfred Lyttleton, Lady Astor's companion on her American trip last year (TIME, April 7), is Miss Martha Gill, of Stephen Girard School, Philadelphia. While Miss Gill visits in English homes, an English teacher is in return visiting in New England and Philadelphia...