Word: trips
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turning and the Coolidges, standing on the back platform of the Washington train, watched the Rapid City station turning into a tiny light spot in which molecular faces peered and electronic fingers wiggled the West's farewell. CT Reporters who traveled east- ward with the President remembering the trip west in June, were impressed with the improvement in his appearance since that time. Then his face had been grey with presidential pallor, etched with executive anxiety; now it was ruddy and wreathed in grins or smiles. ¶At the South Dakota State College, Brookings, S. Dak., the President stopped...
...Boston, to Chicago, where the tourists are to see the forthcoming Tunney-Dempsey prizefight; and return. Planes. Twenty planes, carrying 4 to 8 passengers each, will make the tour. Each will have a glass enclosed cabin, wicker armchairs, radio headphones at each seat. Money's Worth. The round-trip fare of $575 includes hotel quarters at tour start and at Chicago, motor carriage between hotels and flying fields, a picnic lunch en route, re-served ringside seat at the fight, and "a stop for one hour at the Cleveland landing field in order that the passengers may have...
...most significant feature of the trip is that interest in the drama is great enough in these places to guarantee expenses. The guarantors are women's clubs, local drama societies, colleges, occasionally business men's societies. The theatres will be high-schooled auditoriums, town halls, converted cinema houses, local stages, community clubs...
...trip. President Coolidge stood above the Grand Canyon. Observers wondered whether a man whose greatest quality of tact was a stubborn silence, often ill-timed, would now fit the circumstances so as to be impressive. After regarding the canyon for several minutes, the President wisely sighted a telescope on the opposite side, the bottom of the canyon, birds wheeling below...
...trip from the Canyon to Cody, on the return to Black Hills, the President made in an automobile, proceeding along the famed Cody road. The picayune limousine in which he sat crawled up edges of huge and jagged mountains, reached finally the height of 9,000 feet above sea level. Never before, President Coolidge stated, had he climbed so high...