Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Deneen spent several days as a guest at White Court. Martin B. Madden, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, paid a flying visit, having just returned from Europe. He looked forward, he told reporters, to a reduction of surtaxes to a maximum of 15% and a total reduction of $350,000,000. He favored reduction of the corporation tax from 12½% to 10%, objected to a graduated corporation tax and approved in general terms the Treasury's stand (see TAXATION...
...Coolidge and her son John paid a visit to a shoe factory at Lynn, saw how shoes are constructed. Only women's shoes are made there, but the manufacturer measured the young man's feet and promised him a pair of shoes in three days...
...Duke of York signified his "sincere pleasure and grateful thanks" by accepting invitations to become the Honorary President of the Yorktown World Forum,* Yorktown Country Club and the Yorktown Historical Society. The acceptance of these invitations was somehow or other construed to mean that the Duke would visit Yorktown, Va., next year, but this was officially denied in London, although both the Duke and Duchess hoped they would at some future date be able...
Field Marshal Lord Haig, accompanied by Lady Haig, left Canada for England after a prolonged visit to the Dominion in the interests of the British Empire Service League (veterans' organization...
...Yorktown World Forum was formed to perpetuate the Yorktown battlefield where Lord Cornwallis surrendered. British Ambassador Sir Esmé Howard, speaking recently, referred to a visit to the battlefield: "I felt that all bitterness, thank God, was past between us. I felt that just as our heritage of poets and sailors, of philosophers, lawgivers and statesmen belongs to you, so the greatness of your people is a greatness of which I, as an Englishman, have a right to be proud...