Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aberdeen, S. Dak. a cheerful, prosperous-looking crowd of 15,000 gave President Roosevelt the warmest reception of his trip. There, as in other towns along his way, he saw good clothes, smiling faces, rows of new automobiles, was assured that, though crops had failed, Fed- eral relief money spent on neighborhood building and conservation projects had kept things humming. "I understand," cried he, "some people are not in favor of planning for the future. I understand some people object to spending now in order to save for the future. But it is real economy if you spend...
From Aberdeen, the President motored off on another side-trip, stopped at the farm of young Henry Welbus, who told him that with the help of a $1,221 Government loan he was making out, had even been able to pay back $400 of it. Up for Presidential inspection in her mother's arms went 19-month-old Darlene Welbus. Said he: "She's a fine-looking youngster." No baby-kisser is Franklin Roosevelt, but while cameras clicked he seized Darlene's hand, counted her fingers: "One, two, three, four, five...
...vacations granted to Harvard students, Christmas and Spring, the Express is again called to the forefront as undergraduates shake the dust of college towns off their feet for a flying trip home and back with often only time enough for a couple of days in the old home town...
This week the rest of the Commission's trip (see map) takes it north to view regions even more desolate than the Southwest's Dust Bowl, the blister that covers parts of the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming. Later they will meet the President in South Dakota, make a preliminary report...
...bumps where the horns are beginning to bud, Rancher Belden collected $100. Clumping about Manhattan in his cowboy boots, ten-gallon hat, the short, jovial "Antelope King" remarked: "None of the fawns was airsick. Whenever they seemed to mind the heat, we just flew a thousand feet higher. The trip was a cinch...