Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exposition. With a parade of floats behind him and a pageant of Texas history "under six flags"* before him, Governor Allred will this week tell the world by radio that the Exposition has opened. There next week Franklin Roosevelt will make the major speech of his three-day visit to Texas. And there, if Dallas is to get her money's worth, a good many millions of U. S. citizens will see what Texas has to advertise and how she advertises...
...confidential reports from all over Europe and the Near East, Benito Mussolini decided last week that the moment had come for a diplomatic retreat. For the first time since Italy's entry into Addis Ababa, he ordered his Ambassador to Britain, Dino Grandi, to pay a formal visit to Anthony Eden. The proper button was pressed, the Italian Press burgeoned with articles referring to Italy's long friendship for Britain, and II Duce himself received Correspondent Gordon Lennox of the London Daily Telegraph. Said...
...second time since his accession, Edward VIII flew last week, this time to pay a last minute visit to the Queen Mary before her maiden voyage (see col. 3). At the controls was his longtime personal pilot, unassuming Flight Lieutenant Edward H. Fielden. Queen Mary and other members of the royal family had come down by train, were already at the quay-side as King Edward's plane landed. For five hours the public was kept away as the royal family went over the ship from stem to stern, lunched together in private. Irrepressible Princess Elizabeth loudly demanded...
...French Government announced last week that Edward VIII will make his first official visit to foreign soil on July 26 when he goes to Vimy Ridge to unveil two vast pylons designed by Canadian Sculptor Walter Allard and carved with the names of 12,000 Canadian dead. A rumor persisted that Queen Mary will also leave Britain for the first time since the War, pay a visit to Nazi Germany to see her girlhood home, the ducal castle of Teck in Württemberg...
...warden of St. Stephen's College, made headlines by declaring: "Let us not be too sure of our Anglo-American friendship. Unfortunately it is only too likely we may fight one another in the future. . . . America is not English. The average American when he comes to visit Europe finds himself much more at home in Munich, Berlin, Rotterdam or Milan than London. There is little anti-English feeling in America but there is little pro-English feeling there...