Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week around the mud-banks that embrace Kowloon Bay, in answer to a saluting salvo from the U. S. S. Pittsburgh, steaming in. It was Diplomat-Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, commander of U. S. naval forces in the Far East, arriving to pay Hongkong the first visit of his current assignment. After a week in British Hongkong, he meant to proceed 100 miles up the Canton River to Canton to investigate the South China "situation." At the proper moment, Hongkong's Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, entertained Admiral Bristol & aides with a state dinner. Admiral Bristol repaid with...
...spruce, dynamic Amir Amanullah of pugnacious and independent Afghanistan continued, last week, his triumphal visit in the British Isles (TIME, March 26). Featured were several new adventures designed to bring the Orient sovereign into close and striking contact with Occidental ideas and might...
...appeared in the papers which she serves. No sooner was it off the press, however, than a similar report was issued in book form* by famed Ivy Ledbetter Lee, suave discerning public relations counsel to the John D. Rockefellers, père et fils. Mr. Lee's visit to Moscow antedated that of Miss Thompson by only a few months. Of remarkable significance is the fact neither has written anything of Soviet Russia which contradicts the other...
Threatened with this immediate possibility and with damage suits impending from her producers, Miss Eagels gave no indications of alarm or even of concern. She stayed in Manhattan at the smart Hotel Elysee and paid a day's visit to the country place which belongs to her husband, Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy, one-time Yale football back...
Three months ago Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh flew from the U. S. to Mexico as Ambassador of Goodwill. On an exchange visit, and by the suggestion of Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, the Mexican Tipica Orchestra* came by the more sedate train route to the U. S. Last week Manhattan gave it official welcome on the steps of City Hall, listened to its playing, presented on behalf of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce a gold medal labeled "Music-the universal language...