Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed Senator Johnson's resolution for an investigation of bituminous coal mining and strike conditions in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio. Chairman Watson of the Interstate Commerce Committee appointed Senators Gooding, Pine, Wheeler, Metcalf and Wagner to visit the mines, Senator Couzens refusing to join in what he called "a hippodrome," "a circus performance...
Throughout the week Chancellor Seipel masked the import of his visit to Prague under the excuse that he was there to lecture on The World Outlook. This he dutifully did before a huge, enthusiastic audience in which sat and applauded Dr. Benes, biggest little statesman in Europe...
Emil Ludwig (biographer of Napoleon, Bismarck, Wilhelm II) neglected to fulfill a lecture engagement in Milwaukee, Wis.; went to Daytona Beach, Fla., to visit John D. Rockefeller; watched the 88-year-old oilman play golf; said, "When I return to Germany I may write a sketch of Mr. Rockefeller." Mr. Ludwig recently let it be known that he considered the four greatest living U. S. persons to be Thomas A Edison, Jane Addams, Orville Wright, John D. Rockefeller...
...Minister King, dined with U. S. Minister William Phillips. At a state dinner given by the Government, he bespoke "rivalry without bitterness" and proceeded to a reception given by Governor-General and Viscountess Willingdon. Returning home after four days, he brought a thorough going invitation to President Coolidge to visit Canada...
...step is hailed as of great significance in promoting friendly relations between the United States and China. President J. Leighton Stuart, of Yenching University, here on a visit, predicts that the organization in general supervision of the work, called the Harvard Yenching Institute of Chinese Studies, will become "a strong factor in cementing the friendship between the United States and China, which is of such critical importance in the political future of the whole Pacific basin. The Chinese themselves have recently been awakened to a new interest in their national culture. A better understanding of this culture by the outside...