Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Africa. They were leaving Italy last week at the rate of two shiploads per day. As a final twist to the British lion's tail, Il Duce went down to Ostia, took the controls of his trimotored seaplane and flew off over the Tyrrhenian Sea for his first visit in twelve years to Sardinia, found two miles of conscripts lined up ready to embark...
...peace depths in French hearts. Pierre Laval loomed last week as the right Premier to save the franc and France because he has built himself up in the eyes of all Frenchmen by ceaseless peace efforts as French Foreign Minister. These climaxed in the Stresa Pact and his visit to Moscow (TIME, May 27). M. Laval's manner of achieving power as Premier, for the third time, all French politicians agreed last week, was characteristically peasant-shrewd...
This deal having been consummated, "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," Dr. Eduard Benes, perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, set off last week for a goodwill visit to Moscow. As his train halted in Warsaw, Col. Josef Beck, Germanophile Polish Foreign Minister, was pointedly not at the station, snubbed Dr. Benes by sending only minor Polish officials to greet...
...presidents of cocky little Uruguay, big Argentina and bigger Brazil have been exchanging goodwill visits for a year. Last fortnight Brazil's Getulio Dornelles Vargas called on Argentina's Agustin P. Justo (TIME, June 3). Last week Vargas went on to Montevideo, with his wife & daughter, to visit Uruguay's smart, stolid President Gabriel Terra, who runs a firm dictatorship over the most up-&-coming people in South America...
Last year Committee A received 56 complaints. Twenty-eight were rejected or required no investigation. Only nine were deemed worthy of an inquisitorial visit. Among recent causes célèbres have been those of Professor Ralph E. Turner v. Chancellor Bowman at University of Pittsburgh (TIME, March 4), Professor John A. Rice v. President Holt at Rollins College (TIME...