Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in the Kansas capital, where he planned to stay until his drought conference with President Roosevelt this week, Alf Landon released a press statement: "I return to Topeka deeply gratified with my first trip of the 1936 campaign. . . . Everywhere, despite differences in geography, the people are undoubtedly interested in good government. . . . This is as it should be. It is the American...
...evening last week concerning results of Mississippi's and South Carolina's Dem-ocratic primaries (tantamount to elections) came from the White House. The news the White House got was the best send-off President Roosevelt could have had as he started West on his drought-inspection trip that night. By thwacking majorities Mississippi and South Carolina had returned two of the President's most loyal and useful Senators, for each of whom his attachment to the President had been the prime campaign issue...
...technical discussions, I got the impression of having to deal with intelligent and capable men of good faith. I am eminently satisfied! How could one help being satisfied when one has just talked with a man like Blum? I am very happy with the results of my trip...
...Stout shared Mr. Lorimer's beliefs in "fundamental American doctrines." A graduate of the Kansas City Star, Wesley Winans Stout has been one of the Post's associates for twelve years, has written and ghost-written many an article. Last week he set out on a motor trip with his wife for a brief vacation before slipping his solid, substantial and Republican person into George Horace Lorimer's editorial chair before the first of the year...
Beginning his account with a description of Washington during Jefferson's administrations, Author Bowers details the uncomfortable 11-day trip from New York by stagecoach, the hunting within the city limits, the horse-racing and card-playing that provided most of the entertainment for Washington dwellers, the strange mixture of physical discomfort and intellectual vitality that characterized the Capital's society. There the 58-year-old Jefferson, scandalizing British Minister Merry by receiving him in comfortable, heelless slippers, created an international sensation when he dispensed with precedents at State functions. The relationship of Mrs. Merry to Irish Poet...