Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Porto Rican Legislature recently authorized a commission to visit Washington to urge this end. In Washington last week Secretary of War Weeks fortified himself for the visit of the Commission by consulting with Major General Mclntyre, chief of the Insular Bureau. Doubtless he will give the islanders a cordial welcome. But he expressed the opinion that under the present regime Porto Rico is enjoying unparalleled prosperity...
...unable to meet some of my obligations. ... I happen to be Governor of Indiana, but this is a private matter that has happened to other farmers. The state has not suffered. I do not see that the public should be greatly interested." William Jennings Bryan went to California to visit his son-in-law. There he took opportunity to say that President Coolidge would probably receive the Republican Presidential nomination in 1924, but as for the Democratic choice, "We have a great many available men. There's scarcely a state-North, South, East or West-that could not furnish...
...announced that ex-Premier Lloyd George will not be present at the 30th biennial meeting of the General Unitarian Conference at Yale University, New Haven, Sept. 11 to 16, owing to postponement of his visit to the U. S. until "later this month." He had previously accepted the invitation of U. S. Chief Justice Taft, President of the Conference, to speak at New Haven. Said Mr. George's letter: "I feel as if Unitarianism, in view of the discussion in our sister churches, has become more and more important in furnishing a basis for religious inspiration...
...blame me if my children visit me here? Do you blame the Crown Prince for wanting to leave his lonely island to seek distraction in Doom...
...Woodrow Wilson: "I paid a personal call upon Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. The press stated that this visit was the first I have made to the White House since I presided over its functions. As a matter of fact, when Mrs. Harding was ill last Fall my husband and I drove to the White House, made inquiries for her, left our cards...