Word: trips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trace of powder in the air. The pertinacity of a Sandino in Nicaragua (see p. 16) is momentarily embarrassing. The alleged economic offensive of European industrialists?British, German, Belgian?is momentarily disturbing. But both of these developments merely serve to emphasize the business wisdom of the President's trip. Both enhance the opportunity he has created to interpret the U. S. position in what is more and more truly called the Western Hemisphere...
...Trip. Thirty years ago, the Western Hemisphere became the U. S. That it might not remain so, even with Spain gone and Britain acquiescent, was perceived by the U. S. statesman who secured the Panama Canal. That the Panama Canal was a business as well as a Naval channel was perceived by the man who founded Florida's perpetual youth?Henry M. Flagler. On his way to Havana, President Coolidge would not fail to be impressed by the Flagler monuments...
...native Mason City, Iowa, where he will return after a trip to Europe, they know that business does not worry Hanford MacNider. He is going to build a new house there. He is going "to bring up our two sons in their own home town." He is going, though not as a delegate, to the Republican convention at Kansas City...
...Brazil by President Dr. Washington Luis Pereira de Souza. Three days in Rio and two more of inland excursioning, to be followed by a swift return to England, was the vacation program of the onetime British Prime Minister. Ever to the fore, he made the now smart British holiday trip to Brazil in the wake of famed Poet-Jungle-Chronicler Rudyard Kipling who recently "rolled down to Rio" and stayed to praise a land almost as rich and wondrous as "Kipling's India...
...Davis made a trip to the Orient & South Sea Islands. Among the Sunda Islands he recognized ideal climate for rubber tree cultivation. In Sumatra he developed rubber plantations. Others, notably Firestone Tire & Rubber, have followed since...