Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sons, James and Franklin Jr., were to become 3rd degree Masons. Accompanied by his mother, the President entered a car at Hyde Park and started for Manhattan under heavy escort. Instead of driving at the usual 50 m.p.h. clip, the motorcade never once exceeded 30 m.p.h. The 75-mile trip took nearly three hours. At the edge of New York City, 350 police took over from State Troopers. Behind 15 motorcycle policemen and a dozen cars filled with detectives in constant touch by radio with police headquarters, the President drove to his town house on East 65th Street through streets...
...Mark Sullivan's living-room bookcase now stands a foot-high memento of one such trip-an inscribed photograph of President Hoover happily hauling in a whopper (see cut, p. 41). But his relations with Herbert Hocver as President are not yet history to Mark Sullivan, and he will discuss them only casually...
...have reached Singapore long before Pilot Melrose. But when Melrose finally slid in for a landing, Sir Charles was two hours overdue. On what he asserted was to be his last long flight, the great Australian aviator and Co-Pilot Pethybridge had left London on Wednesday for a "leisurely" trip home. When the single-motored monoplane reached Allahabad on Thursday, the flyers were scarcely three hours behind the record. Eagerly they headed on, past Akyab, out over the Bay of Bengal. . . . When, as the hours ticked by, there came no sign of the plane, no message from its radio...
Last month Publisher Nelson Doubleday and Lawyer Morris Leopold Ernst took a quick trip to Europe & back. Last week Doubleday, Doran & Co., publishers, along with Doubleday, Doran Bookshops, Inc., retail booksellers, sued R. H. Macy & Co. for price-cutting on Doubleday books. Whether or not publisher and lawyer had gone abroad to plan their campaign in the privacy of the high seas, their action involved the validity of the Feld-Crawford Fair Trade Act, affected Listerine, Lysol, Jello, Postum, many another nonliterary product...
Tentative plans for a Christmas trip through central New York State are being laid with concerts at Rochester on the 26th, at Buffalo on the 27th, and at Syracuse on the 30th. These concerts will be sponsored by the Harvard clubs of the various cities. The expedition may go as far afield as Cleveland or Chicago...