Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stopped in," explained onetime Federal Reserve Board Governor Eugene Meyer after his visit, "to pay my respects to the Governor. When I say pay my respects, that is what I mean. He is entitled to respect...
...Service and wireless men; the Presidential yacht Potomac, for secretaries, emergencies and fishing jaunts; the schooner Liberty, for newshawks. First day's run brought the President to Bucks Harbor, off South Brooksville, Me. Next noon he put in at Mount Desert Island's Seal Cove for a visit from Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, wife, son and three daughters. Dressed in old pants, blue sweater and floppy white hat, Franklin Roosevelt received them with a day's growth of stubble on his chin, kept the Admiral for lunch. That afternoon he played his favorite game, tacking into...
...rain, fields in that area yielded nothing but crisp brown stubble. At Mitchell, S. Dak. 11,000 citizens knelt to the tolling of bells in the town's 13 churches one morning last week, devoutly prayed for rain, got none. Instead Dakotans were promised this week a visit from a scouting party of top-flight New Dealers headed by Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell and Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams. Farmers in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa predicted a 50% loss unless rain came within a week. Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri reported that, rain or no rain, they would be lucky...
Baroness Kunegunde von Richthofen, spry, greying mother of the late Baron Manfred von Richthofen, Germany's No. 1 War Ace (80 victories), arrived at Montreal on her first visit to Canada. A Canadian war pilot, Captain Roy Brown, now head of Canada's General Airways, was officially credited with shooting down Ace von Richthofen. Last week Baroness von Richthofen asserted that her son had been downed by Australian artillery fire as he flew low in a dogfight with Captain Brown...
...Harry Baur ran away to Marseille from a government home at 13, worked his way through school, toured the provinces as a peddler, joined the army, prepared funeral wreaths for a florist to pay for diction lessons, after the ambition to be an actor was instilled by his first visit to a theatre- Lucien Guitry in Amants. Famed for his portrayal of Dr. Moriarty in Sherlock (1907), he was a member in good standing of the Paris pre-War esthete set, friend of Picasso, Apollinaire, Max Jacob. Forgotten by his public when the War was over, he worked...