Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into Federal service. To these men he explains that they are patriots because each of them makes a "personal sacrifice" to accept appointment. The "sacrifice" meant by the President in most cases is a heavy loss of income, plus the presumptive inconvenience if not discomfort of leaving home to visit or live in Washington...
King Ahmed Fuad of Egypt, fat and happy, now on an official tour of Europe, last week paid a surprise visit to the League of Nations at Geneva. He caused a mild panic among the staid members of the Secretariat. Little used to entertaining pompous monarchs who travel as does Egypt's Fuad with a small army of retainers, Secretariat members thought only in the nick of time to provide a throne for the dusky, red-fezzed potentate. Acting Secretary General J. A. M. C. Avenol, flustered in the absence of his chief, suave, assured Sir Eric Drummond, madly...
Easy-going King Fuad's surprise visit was not regarded, last week, as more than another impotent gesture, destined to bear little fruit...
...Slemp's visit to the White House bore fruit when President Hoover telegraphed the Richmond convention that its action "added proof of the purpose of the people of your great State to rise and remain above the level of single party control in local government," and that it would "prove an inspiration to other States throughout the South to do likewise...
...onetime Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida could not brook such an irregularity. He was responsible for the Kellogg treaty in Japan. He felt that he was put in the position of presenting an unconstitutional treaty to his country. Piqued, he resigned from the Privy Council, paid a farewell visit to Prince Saonji, last of the Elder Statesmen or Genro...