Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undeterred by such comments, the President last week continued his non-partisan activities which included: ¶ The ostentatious summoning to Washington of his Congressional finance heads to announce that no new taxes were in prospect. ¶ A trip by rail to Johnstown, in pivotal Pennsylvania, where he motored for two hours through last spring's flood regions, was cheered everywhere by great throngs, declared, "The Federal Government, so long as I have anything to do with it, is going to cooperate ... in taking every possible measure to prevent floods in the future...
...depends today, as in the past, on the wisdom and determination of whoever at the moment occupy the offices of President and Secretary of State." ¶ A visit to Binghamton, N. Y., another flood region, where he made another automobile tour and encountered the only lukewarm reception on his trip...
Having surveyed the matter of too much water in the East, he will continue his non-political campaign by surveying the matter of too little water in the West when he starts on an extended Drought trip next week...
Aside from a one-day trip to his home in Independence to vote in the Kansas primary, Alf M. Landon's chief interest last week was the Drought which Secretary of Agriculture Wallace gloomily admitted is now the worst in U. S. history. Since by the Kansas Constitution Governor Landon could not aid needy farmers with State funds, he set out to make others do the job. Through his efforts. Western railroads cut their fares one-third on hay and one-half on other feed shipped in for starving stock. The Santa Fe Railroad halved its tariff on water...
Next door to Greece is Bulgaria. Last week its Little Tsar Boris, also troubled by Reds, was on a swift trip to consult Mussolini in Rome, then Hitler in Berlin. Nebulously an international European Fascist solidarity seemed forming to counter-balance the Communist International...