Word: guests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herbert Hoover had also gone to Brussels, in a sense, as an honored house guest of the Belgian people. He went first to Brussels in 1914, a distinguished engineer, as head of the Belgian Relief Commission, which helped save the Belgian people from starvation in World War I. And it was in his role as a house guest even more than in his role of presidential representative that Herbert Hoover was able, as he delivered a formal Fourth of July address in the Grand Auditorium that night, to command attention and respect with a sentence: "I would not be your...
AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., fast moving into credit-card business, has picked up the 45,000-member Gourmet Guest Club, is dickering to get Esquire Club's 100,000 members...
...Washington's Capitol Hill that he found his real home. Often mistaken by tourists for a Senator, McConaughy liked the members of Congress, and they liked him. He averaged about five miles a day walking down congressional corridors into congressional offices, was a welcome guest in congressional homes, an after-hours regular in the private sanctums of Vice President Richard Nixon, House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. He played a leading part in covering the 1952 and 1956 presidential nominating conventions for TIME, crisscrossed the U.S. both before and during the campaigns. He dogged...
Freedom & Reason. Though Ike completed his commencement rounds, there were still miles to go in his week. He helicoptered to Washington Airport to greet West Germany's President Theodor Heuss, 74, drove his distinguished guest to Blair House, and that evening presided over a state dinner (among the 60 guests: onetime High Commissioner of Occupied Germany John J. McCloy and onetime U.S. Military Governor Lucius D. Clay; former Ambassador to West Germany James B. Conant and present Ambassador David Bruce). In a formal exchange of toasts, Ike assured Heuss that the U.S. is united in admiration for its guest...
...cartoonist for Krokodil, Moscow's sardonic magazine of humor-plus-propaganda, Vitaly Goriaev has many times bitterly lampooned Wall Street as the rotten heart of decadent capitalism. Last week, touring Manhattan as the guest of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, Goriaev was candidly eager to see what the place is really like. Heading toward the Street in a taxicab, he thought he could sense the pace of city life accelerating. "Time is money," he said. "The closer you get to Wall Street, the more the tempo picks...