Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Increasingly pot-bellied King Carol of Rumania was last week back in Bucharest, his capital, after an eventful visit to Prague where he had discussed future policy towards Russia with Czechoslovakia's pro-French President Eduard Benes. To Prague also went Carol's 15-year-old son, rolypoly Crown Prince Mihai, for King Carol, suspecting that his former wife Princess Helen might return to Rumania in his absence and make trouble, was not taking the risk of leaving Mihai behind. So strongly did he feel about what he considered to be Princess Helen's capacity for mischief...
...Rumanian Carol's visit Czechoslovakian Prague was en fête. Triumphal arches had been erected in the main streets which were decorated with flags and evergreen. Prague's electric works reduced their rates by 35% to insure that the city's illuminations should blaze far into the night. Cardinal Kaspar, head of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia, went so far as to permit his Czech flock to eat meat all day Friday. Nothing was lacking to make the reception the sort that Carol most enjoys. There were champagne banquets, boy scouts, a gala opera, hordes...
During his U. S. visit, Papal Secretary Pacelli also visited the Cardinal-Archbishops of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago. He made a dash to the Pacific Coast, where San Francisco's Catholic Mayor Angelo Rossi kissed the episcopal ring, dashed back East to Manhattan, where Catholic Postmaster General James A. Farley also knelt...
...their wives. The party was whisked over to Hyde Park for luncheon followed by a brief private chat between Cardinal and President. Two hours later, back in the special train, Cardinal Pacelli received newshawks, protected by Bishop Spellman from being badgered into saying anything more than: "I enjoyed my visit very much. It was a great opportunity to meet the President and his truly American family and to have luncheon with them...
When Secretary of State Pacelli, highest ranking Vatican official ever to visit the U. S. while in office, disembarked in Manhattan last month, he declared that among other things he wished to "take the pulse'' of the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 19). This wish he undoubtedly attained before his final inspection of the heart of the U. S. at Hyde Park. At Inisfada, the Manhasset, L. I. estate of rich and pious Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, the Roman Cardinal had met the rich and great, pagan and Protestant as well as Catholic. More than one socialite had been...