Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent trip abroad wily old Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris ascertained that British King George frowns upon the project of some Greek Royalists to seat the Duke of Kent upon their vacant throne (TIME, Aug. 19); that despite the feelings of his Greece-born, Greece-loving Duchess, the Duke personally recoils from a project so adventurous and, finally, that London bankers are now backing deposed Georgios II who never abdicated as King of Greece. Last week British George V once more showed where he stood by having "Gorgeous Georgios" II as his grouse-shooting guest at Balmoral in Scotland. In Athens Premier...
Thoroughly rested after a two months trip abroad, president Conant reached his home on Quincy Street Sunday ready to tackle the many problems which demand his attention. Arriving in New York last weekend with Mrs. Conant and his two sons, James and Theodore, the President declined to comment on politics or education and would only say that he had had a "grand trip...
...morning last week dressy little Roy W. Howard, board chairman of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, was in San Francisco about to embark on a trip around the world. Just before he went aboard the S. S. President Coolidge he was handed a letter from the President of the U. S. About the same time, on the other side of the continent, Presidential Secretary Steve Early was handing out to the Press at Hyde Park the same letter, together with one Mr. Howard had previously written his good Friend Franklin Roosevelt. When this exchange of correspondence was headlined up & down...
Alexander Korda's trip to Hollywood last week was not his first. Son of a well-to-do land agent on the estate of a Hungarian bishop, he became a schoolteacher at 14, a reporter at 18, got into cinema by translating subtitles. Starting with an inferior epic based on the Freudian theory of dreams, he began to produce pictures of his own, became the No. 1 cineman of Hungary after the War. This trifling distinction served as a mild irritant. He went to Vienna, made a hit called The Prince and the Pauper, married an actress named Maria...
Back from a 9,000 mile automobile trip taken to show his grandson the country, old (77), shaggy-bearded Leonor Fresnel Loree, canny president of Delaware & Hudson, reported Iowa corn and wheat "beautiful," U. S. businessmen "anti-Administration," U. S. railroads burdened with 90,000 miles of track which ought to be torn up. Said Railroader Loree, who thinks all passenger traffic a nuisance: "I do not feel discouraged about the railroad business. . . . The short-haul business has never paid us. Why should we fuss about...