Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glancing at the others of his party grouped hopefully about him, and at the ten pieces of luggage arranged neatly about their feet. "Twenty-five dollars" might have sounded more familiar, but the taxi man stuck bravely to his first answer. So the gentleman handed him 50? and their trip was resumed by train to Williamsburg. The group consisted of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., their daughter and her husband, Mrs. Rockefeller's son Mr. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller and Mrs. Rockefeller on their way to view the Williamsburg Restoration's progress. Mr. and Mrs. Julian Street...
Successively a provincial governor and Territorial Assemblyman, in 1909 Manuel Quezon made his first trip to Washington as Resident Commissioner. He had no vote in Congress, but he had a voice. That voice soon reached William Atkinson Jones of Warsaw, Va. Representative Jones had been to Manila with the first great Congressional junket in 1905, led by Secretary of War Taft. About the only tangible result of that trip was the betrothal of Representative Nicholas Longworth and Alice Roosevelt. But eight years later, the Democrats took over in Washington and Mr. Jones became Chairman of the House Insular Affairs Committee...
...month and eased off. the Malta fever, it was announced, suddenly attacked Cardenas again in force. He was sweating with it, his joints swelled, he ached, his temperature was high and he felt weak. He had lost about 33 lb. To suggestions that he take a convalescent trip, he snorted. Last week he arose, drove to the San Jacinto suburb of Mexico City and spent two hours patting more cattle at the National Cattle Exhibition...
...years ago in Menard, Tex., a six-foot bricklayer named Ernest Elmer Baker got the notion that his religion, Pentecostalism, would cure Russian Godlessness. He would, he told his father, who gave him $1.40 to start on the trip, "preach the Gospel to the Bolshevik! under the Kremlin wall." After tramping without visas over Germany and Poland into Russia, Ernest Elmer Baker ended up in a detention camp at Minsk, where he was identified last summer by the second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Moscow (TIME, July 1). Last week, with $100 raised by his family to repatriate...
...excitable Philippine President Manuel Quezon ready to receive her, the lithe new flying boat China Clipper last week floated in San Francisco Bay. On her first flight to Manila she was to carry a full load of mail, a crew of five, no passengers. Having postponed the trip once for stamp-collectors, Pan American Airways officials vowed that this time the great ship would leave on schedule-at 3:30 p. m. Pacific Time...