Word: trippings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought Julius Fleischmann's 225-ft. yacht Camargo, renamed it Ramfis for his small brown son, announced a private pleasure trip to the New York World's Fair-via Washington. This squeeze play soon brought forth almost all the invitations Dictator Trujillo had yearned for-a gala at the Pan American Union, dinner with Acting Chief of Staff Marshall of the U. S. Army, audience with Secretary Hull, tea with Franklin Roosevelt. Also included in the program was a luncheon by Haiti's Minister Elie Lescot, to prove that Haiti has forgiven Trujillo for his troops...
...sonofagun" among Louisiana jobholders was at that moment being returned from a quick trip he took to Canada after dropping some $500,000 of Louisiana State University's funds in the wheat market. Dr. James Monroe Smith, who resigned as president of the university just before he skipped (TIME, July 10), got out of an airplane at New Orleans and was met by a crowd of reporters. To one who began asking him about the irregularities at the university Dr. Smith snapped: "I'll answer those questions later," then added: "I don't know...
...knew, for there was no accredited neutral correspondent within days of the trouble-spot. Only the Japanese wounded jamming Harbin hospitals showed the world outside that the border war was not entirely imaginary. Last week Associated Press Correspondent Russell Brines, who works out of Tokyo, after a long, difficult trip, managed to reach the remote Mongolian frontier and began to make the war make sense...
...scheduled to go to Gdynia, the Baltic Polish port near Danzig, where he was to catch a ship for France. Onthelstanbul-Bucharest-Warsaw-Gdynia-Paris route Zog will have traveled 2,700 miles, which is 1,100 miles longer than the direct Istanbul-Sofia-Belgrade-Milan-Paris rail trip...
Last week New Yorkers who were willing to make the trip down to 175 Canal St. and up four flights of stairs had a chance to note the effect of the Sino-Japanese war upon the minds of American-born Chinese children aged 4 to 16. The children's first National Art Exhibition, staged by the alert four-year-old Chinese Art Club, had gathered 550 drawings and paintings from every part of the country, including Honolulu...