Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night Mr. King had a long session before the same hearth where the Canadian trade agreement had its genesis, slept in a White House bed. Next morning he returned to his Legation in silence. He might have made no more than a social visit, but not an observer in Washington believed it. Too many coincidences were involved...
...years ago Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada paid a social visit at the White House, for no ostensible reason except friendship. The prompt upshot was the U. S.-Canadian reciprocal trade agreement. Last week, on the eve of another visit by Mr. King, the press asked President Roosevelt what he and the Prime Minister expected to discuss. Was it by any chance a new St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty? The President waved this suggestion aside. The subjects of discussion, he declared expansively, would include ''North, Central and South America and the world in general...
...five minutes. Some unfortunate jinx caused the first tractor off the line as Mr. Davies approached to refuse to start. "It has been rejected," announced the Bolshevik interpreter, "and it is now sent to specialists for analysis!" The next tractor snorted off beautifully and during the Ambassador's visit no other breakdown appeared. After dropping in at the Medical Clinic and Nursery, the party drove to Kharkov's Turbogenerator and Electric Machinery Plant. Here many workers were standing about puffing cigarets, so occupied in conversing among themselves that they scarcely noticed the Ambassadorial party. In the turbine section...
From its files the Examiner drew many a great news story with which in days gone by it had roused San Franciscans: the mysterious Nob Hill haunted house scare (1888), the City Hall building fraud of 1891; the visit of Strong Man Eugene Sandow in 1894 when the blond Hercules separately moved each & every muscle of his body; the horrid "Belfry Murders"-two young women church workers, one chopped up, one strangled and stowed in a steeple (1895); the kidnapping and torture of aged Sugar Planter James Campbell...
...visitors' book at the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration, a visitor wrote his address as "17 Quincy Street," described the purpose of his visit "to laern more knolgege." He signed himself Theodore Richards Conant, 10-year-old son of Harvard's president...