Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention to the fact that the Cumberland report was put out by the State Department only as "the personal views of Dr. Cumberland," not as an official program. In the second place, he made the incredible announcement that the State Department had not known Mr. Hoover was going to visit Nicaragua. Secretary Kellogg added, vaguely, that there were some suggestions in the Cumberland report of which he did not approve...
Colombia. Of all the nations of South America only Colombia faces on two oceans. Strangely enough this does not mean that it would be easy for President-Elect Hoover to visit President Miguel Abadia Mendez of Colombia from the Pacific side. Short of flying it would be nearly impossible. For a chain of mighty mountains cuts off Bogota (see Map) from the Pacific Ocean, and the Colombian Capital is itself more than a mile and a half high (8,560 ft.). Even from the Atlantic side it takes longer to reach Bogota, by express steamer up the great Magdalena River...
...Spain. After three centuries of Spanish rule-galleons, slaves and sweated gold-romance in Peru was still at full tide. Only then came Simon Bolivar-hero of a continent-to end the Spanish rule of South America where it began, in Lima. In consequence Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Hoover can visit no South American capital whatsoever without finding, in some especially public place, a statue of BOLIVAR. Though born a Venezuelan his exploits included becoming President of Peru and having Bolivia named after...
Horween's next visit to Cambridge will probably be on the occasion of the banquet which the Harvard Club of Boston is anxious to tender this year's Crimson team. The date for this affair has not been set and awaits such a time when the head coach can arrange to be present with the team...
...first visit to the U. S. nor his first performance in Redemption. Moissi was one of the troupe of German players who came here a year ago with Reinhardt to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream in German, as well as other lovely and pretentious novelties. Now he is here with his German company to go touring* in Redemption, in which he has played at intervals for the past 15 years. Curiously enough, Moissi was not born back stage on a winter's night, while his mother was making a quick change in The Sunken Bell. His paternal...