Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while cruising off Cape San Lucas or among the storied Galapagos Islands, Franklin Roosevelt this week turns his mind back to the last half of his self-styled "look-see" trip across the continent, he will recall...
Pallid, big-boned, secretive Colonel Josef Beck, active Polish Foreign Minister who recently visited Sweden, then Estonia, was off again last week on another flying trip as advance agent for his proposed Eastern European Bloc. Idea of the Beck Bloc, it is rumored, is that all the little countries which lie in the area of a possible future war should form a neutral belt between Nazi Germany and Bolshevik Russia, should appear at Geneva before the next League Assembly and secure officially for themselves a recognized neutrality status similar to that of Belgium. They would ask to be released from...
...standards the ship was a crate, but in it, with nothing to fly by but a compass, a bit of a map and the beam in his eye, 31-year-old Douglas P. Corrigan of Los Angeles had flown the 2,700 miles to New York nonstop. A vacation trip, he said, and a fairly pleasant one, from his job at the Northrop Corp. aircraft works at Inglewood, Calif...
...150th anniversary of the establishment of American civil government in the Northwest Territory at Marietta. Ohio, offered him an occasion, reeking with history, to hang a large historical backdrop behind the little political maneuvers of this trip. He did so with one of his analogies between the old frontier of ''new land, new game, new opportunity" and the F. D. R. frontier of social and economic security. Said...
...local color he discovered, Author Daniels finished his trip disturbed, thoughtful, none too optimistic. The Civil War caused suffering in the South, he admits, but its chief injury was that it gave southerners an excuse for doing nothing. Despite lynchings,* he believes that Negroes and whites have lived together in relative quiet, decency and peace, and that if the South is to rise, both races must rise together. He concludes that the tariff hurt the South more than Sherman ever did, that a northern economic occupation is now ending just as its military occupation once ended. From northerners, he asks...