Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taber and Fred Freestone of the National Grange, who arrived to suggest a system of crop insurance which they had already presented to Alf Landon, who promised it favorable consideration. Franklin Roosevelt promised no less. As for more immediate Drought problems, the President laid out in detail his trip to confer with officials of 16 Drought States, beginning this week at Bismarck...
Most eager to talk politics were newshawks. In response to their questions the President repeated his solemn declaration that there would be no politics in his Drought trip, not even at Des Moines where he will meet Governor Landon. In fact, he declared, politics would be "out"' two weeks hence when he addressed a seven-State Democratic rally at Charlotte, N. C., "out" the week after when he speaks at the 300th anniversary of the founding of Harvard College...
...whose program of monetary reform is sound. . . . However, I think the defeat of Landon is of the utmost importance to the great masses of America. . . ." Second telegram was to Franklin Roosevelt, who had wired him to ''keep up the good fight," suggested seeing him on his drought trip to Minnesota. To the President the sick Governor replied: "Very happy to see you at St. Mary's Hospital Aug. 31." The Roosevelt-Olson meeting, however, was not destined to take place...
Oldtimers in Boise like to tell of the Idaho farm boy who some years ago returned from a trip to their city, breathlessly told his father that he had seen the great Senator Borah. As proof, the lad said he had heard a number of Boise people addressing the stranger as "Senator." "Son," the farmer drawled, "those city slickers were fooling you. Now what in the world would a man like Senator Borah be doing in a place like Idaho...
Before embarking on his yachting trip, England's Edward VIII had stopped in Salzburg, snapshot the land marks, heard no music. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was there. So were Steelman Myron Taylor, Music Patron Harry Harkness Flagler, Mrs. Woolworth Donahue, Secretary of Labor Frances Perhins, Singers Ganna Walska and Feodor Chaliapin. Long before the season opened, 11,316 U. S. visitors had made hotel reservations, bought $200,000 worth of concert and opera tickets. Last week with the Salzburg season half over, hawkers were doing a thriving business in cushions for the hard Festspielhaus seats, trade...