Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Late in the week, Professor Edwin W. Kemmerer, famed Princeton economist, onetime fiscal consultant to the German Reichsbank and to the governments of South Africa, Chile, etc., returned to the U. S. after a two weeks' visit in Poland, whither he had gone at the invitation of the Polish Government and by the request of Dillon, Read & Co. of Manhattan, who have recently dealt largely in Polish government securities...
...entering Russia through Poland on my last visit," continued the speaker, in taking up the international policy of the Soviet, "I observed a condition on the frontier which seemed to me symbolic of the attitude of the Russians toward their neighbors. Poland, under the tutelage of France, is a highly militaristic nation overrun by soldiers and bristling with fortifications,--bought with money loaned to them by you and I for the most part, to repair the ravages wrought by other countries in the war. The towns and villages still lie in ruins, but along the entire Poland frontier stretch miles...
...ever feel the reality and the weigth of history so deeply as when he stands in the presence of the venerable monuments of antiquity. This is what makes a visit to Rome, Athens, or Memphis so impressive, so full of awe. In the Museum are written records of a period so ancient as to make moderns of Moses and Homer, revealing a civilization so remote as to fill our minds with wonder. These oldest remains come, of course, from the Tigris-Euphrates valley, the culture of which was a mixture of Semitic and non-Semitic elements. This culture profoundly influenced...
Towering aloft like a column of smoke and fire, Otto Klemperer "volcano of Wiesbaden," brandished the baton relinquished last week by Eugene Goosens as guest conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra, and conducted the first of 26 concerts scheduled for his first visit...
...Weeks came over the mountains to Chile after his visit to the more southern countries, and was a quiet spectator at the Tacna-Arica tribunal being conducted under General Pershing. "Very little has been accomplished there to date," he said, "and General Pershing will undoubtedly return at least temporarily to this country...