Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flat 10% cut in all appropriations except fixed charges (interest on public debt, veterans' pensions, Government contracts). But on the eve of the President's departure for Texas and tarpon, Missouri's Clarence Cannon, the senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, paid a White House visit. Returning to the Capitol, he promptly sponsored a 132-word resolution simply "impounding" 15% of all appropriations for fiscal 1938 and providing that "no amount so impounded and set aside shall be available for obligation unless and until released and restored in whole or in part by the President." Speaker...
...amount he gets done each day is enormous. He's now in the process of writing a book on politics; has about finished "The Realm of Truth", and incidentally is revising a little play: "Philosophers At Court" concerning Plato's visit to Dionysius at Syracuse. At present for relaxation he's reading Latin poetry and touching up a few sonnets. He writes easily but carefully. Manuscripts are set aside for long periods of time; then if necessary undergo severe revision. It is no wonder he's been called the best modern prose stylist. Yet you will recall he didn...
Last Christmas both were reading Gulliver's Travels. One day Father Mauch, who was paying them a visit, fell asleep on a sofa. They found two spools of thread, wound it around him so that when he woke up he found himself in the same predicament as Gulliver in Lilliput. Mrs. Mauch extricated her husband with a pair of scissors...
Museum, which is full of scientific and industrial exhibits in operation and which Bavarian schoolchildren are required by law to visit once a year. In 1926 Julius Rosenwald gave $3,000,000 to Chicago for the as yet incompleted Rosenwald Museum of Science & Industry, patterned after the Deutsches...
Last fortnight in Manhattan Dr. Mann's right moment came. Starting his 12-day visit to the U. S. by striking back with a stinging denunciation of Nazi censorship, he carried on his attack with lectures, mass meetings, an impressive barrage of speeches and statements. Dr. Mann's most telling blast was in his pamphlet, An Exchange of Letters,* which critics recognized as belonging with such classic literary rebukes as Zola's J'Accuse. Like most such spontaneous expressions of intellectual integrity, An Exchange of Letters was called into being by a relatively small occasion. Last...