Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hartzell was convicted of using the mails to defraud Drakesters, was given ten years in Leavenworth. Hartzell started out as an Iowa farmer as dimwitted as the rest of the Drake Estate "contributors." After he had put up $6,000 of his mother's money, he made a trip to England in 1922 to see how it was being spent. There he promptly switched from the giving to the receiving end of the business, drew an income of $2,500 a week and became known in London's night clubs as "The Baron." In 1933 England shipped Baron...
...tightest little tyranny in the Caribbean Sea, through a heavy fog of censorship, fortnight ago leaked news of trouble in the Dominican Republic. The brisk little tyrant, Dictator-President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, had planned a year and a half vacation in the U. S. and Europe, his first trip off his island, presumably in company with his lush mistress, Donna Maria. Trujillo planned to stop in Washington to renew the 17-month moratorium on the $16,000,000 debt the Republic owes U. S. bondholders. Meanwhile his Minister to the U. S., Rafael Brache, was doing the preliminary spadework...
...Midway, landed within one minute of schedule in time for fishing, baseball in the afternoon. Next day, the ship lost a day by crossing the international date line to Wake for another night's layover before heading for Guam. Thus rested, the crew remained fresh as the long trip progressed...
...upperclassmen, who wish to try out for the spring debates (expect the Yale, Princeton debate and the spring trip) will report Tuesday, December 10, at a place to be announced later with a five minute speech prepared on either side of one of the following questions: "Resolved, that the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has served the best interests of the American farmer" or "Resolved, that the Social Security Legislation of the last Congress is detrimental to the best interests of the American people." There will be separate trials for the spring trip and the triangular debate on February 27 and April...
...London, she acquired a plane which once belonged to Edward of Wales, set out on a career of distance flying. On England-Australia flights she cracked-up twice, finally made it in 1934. Year later she flew back in record time, became the first woman to make the round trip solo. Last week she again took off from England, this time for a series of swift hops to Thies in Senegal, finally on to Natal for a flawless crossing in the record time of 13 hr. 15 min., despite bad weather...