Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last moment he considered making a trip back to Ohio and Indiana, later reconsidered, deciding it would be an admission of nervousness about the election outcome. For this week, the last of the campaign, he dated himself up for a series of speeches that would take him from the Statue of Liberty to his polling place at Hyde Park by way of Wilkes-Barre. Harrisburg, Camden, Wilmington, Washington, Brooklyn. Madison Square Garden and a microphone in Poughkeepsie. Only sense in this zig-zag itinerary was that it would take him through a maximum number of places where the New Deal...
...stands before Dictator Mussolini for high-pressure contact on world affairs, then goes directly home to dinner or to one of the dazzling Roman social functions Edda likes. As soon as Italy and Germany began getting together on the question of helping the Spanish Whites (TIME, Aug. 24), a trip to Berlin loomed and young Count Ciano buckled down to study German furiously. To him languages come easily and Italy's Foreign Minister was all set last week to converse with Dictator Adolf Hitler in the only language that statesman knows...
...interest to laymen for its exact geographical and geological information, for a number of good photographs and for a suggestive chapter on Stone Age African art, with several specimens of brilliant prehistoric drawings. Restless Jungle is by the widow of Explorer Carl Akeley, includes a description of a conventional trip from Cape Town north, with chapters on an interview with the Queen of Swaziland, on elephants at play, on African pioneers, on native witchcraft, which Mrs. Akeley is disposed to take seriously...
President Roosevelt's failure to indorse Governor Curley and Charles F. Burley, Democratic gubernatorial candidate, on his recent trip to Massachusetts, will have no appreciable effect on the election results next Tuesday, in the opinion of John W. Haigis, nominee of the Republican party...
...around the world on commercial airlines as a publicity stunt for their respective papers. Bad planning on the part of the Journal and Times, plus a couple of offside jumps by Reporter Ekins, soon put that World- Telegram man far in the lead. This week he completed the world trip in 18 days, 14 hr., 56 min., 50 and 2/5 sec., by no means a record...