Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...empty cigar box, two Department of Agriculture books wrapped in a newspaper. He was there, he explained, for the sake of "the great State of Texas," and "the pretty little country girl I married." Mr. Carpenter's son, he said; had given him the cigars during a friendly visit. Thumping the box on the committee table, Representative Patton cried: "They're nickel cigars. There were 50 of them, and I'd like to have never gotten rid of them. . . . That's the truth. I hope to God I might be struck dead if that...
...AAAmendments pending in the Senate last week (see p. 12) would create virtually a new AAA requiring a new court test, Attorney General Cummings promised a quick appeal to the Supreme Court, no let-up in the Government's efforts to collect processing taxes. Secretary Wallace, on a visit to his mother in Colorado,† airily remarked: "The ruling is of no great consequence until it has been passed upon by the Supreme Court." But with processors' suits leaping to a total of 359 three days after the decision, collections of processing taxes were last week down...
...Saints have labored in the Hawaiian Islands. In 1919 President Heber Jedediah Grant went there to dedicate a temple at the village of Laie. Hawaiian Mormons now number 14,000 saints. Last week stubble-bearded, 78-year-old President Grant returned to Salt Lake City after a second visit to Hawaii, during which he organized a new Mormon "stake" (ecclesiastical unit)- the Church's 114th and its first outside North America. When Heber J. Grant arrived in Honolulu with his trusty First Counselor, heavy-jowled Joshua Reuben Clark, onetime Ambassador to Mexico, the two potent churchmen were given...
...stung like a wasp, had the personality of a dead salmon and he smelled like a stable full of dead horses." Another: "I heard so much about the alimony jail and I wanted to see the inside so badly that I sent my husband there so that I could visit him." "Are you satisfied now that your husband is in jail?" asked Mr. Anthony. Replies: satisfied, 63%; regretful, 21%; undecided...
When Babe Ruth became angry because his employer, Judge Emil Fuchs, had refused him permission to visit New York to welcome the Normandie, and resigned from the Boston Braves last month, baseball addicts wondered what he would do next. Last week, an editorial in the American Magazine contained an unhappy suggestion. It was named "FAME,'' signed, "Babe Ruth, Guest Editorial Writer.'' Excerpts...