Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...swims in the fresh green waters of the White House pool; daily he is massaged. But fresh air is another thing. He rarely goes to church of a Sunday, and such things as Christmas tree lighting, Gridiron dinners, etc. come too seldom. So Dr. Mclntire encourages him to travel, likes to get the President off on a trip every two or three months. Next trip: probably Warm Springs...
...rest of resort Florida was in full hothouse bloom, all figures indicating the biggest, giddiest season since Depression. Train and plane reservations were being booked two to four weeks in advance; 100% bet ter business over Christmas than in 1938 was reported by Seaboard Air Line Rail way; bus travel was up at least 25%; $3,000,000 more real estate had been sold in 1939 than in 1938 in Miami Beach, where sites were priced at from $800 to $1,000 a front foot; lots on Lincoln Road (Miami Beach's swank shopping street), which went begging...
...debate was Soviet Russia's invasion of Finland, a subject close to the hearts of the 400 convention delegates. One group, led by Leftist Herbert Witt of New York University, was eager to plump squarely for Soviet Russia. But the Union was deeply split, for many a "fellow traveler" had decided to travel no further. Among them: dark, energetic Joseph Lash, leader of the Union (executive secretary since it was founded) and friend of Mrs. Roosevelt, who defended him month ago from the charge of Communism...
...Metropolitan Opera House. The experiment did not work to suit anybody, and eventually Choreographer Balanchine huffed off to Hollywood. But Impresario Kirstein refused to give up. Picking the best members of the tottering American Ballet, he formed a little company of twelve dancers, got a bus for them to travel in, and in 1936 started them barnstorming as the Ballet Caravan...
...crash in Montana killed two passengers, two crew members. On March 26 a crash in Oklahoma killed seven passengers, one crew member. Total passenger deaths: nine. Thereafter, despite a travel increase estimated at 40% over 1938, there was no other passenger fatality for the rest of the year. All told, the lines piled up about 733,000,000 passenger miles -423,000,000 of them during the year's spotless last half...