Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mirror. The two got along famously, two born listeners who knew what they were doing. Stalin was so pleased with Laval that he prolonged the conversation through luncheon, the first time he had ever broken bread with a Capitalist Foreign Minister. It was also the longest visit he had ever had with a foreign official...
...like to talk. Woodchuckish M. Laval pretended not to understand. General Göring then politely requested a conversation, which M. Laval granted at the Air Minister's hotel, for three hours. Loquacious Göring had nothing new to say, and M. Laval declined to promise to visit Hitler in Berlin, but, commented the Frenchman later, "Personal contacts always bring good results...
...England, Adolf Hitler had no warmer sponsor than his friend Lord Rothermere. Five years ago the Rothermere Daily Mail hailed "the rebirth of Germany as a nation." Home from a visit to Munich, Rothermere exulted: "Under Herr Hitler's control the youth of Germany will be effectively organized against the corruption of Communism." More than a year ago he took up with Sir Oswald Mosley, vigorously pushed the Mosley "British Union of Fascists." Then came last June's Blood Purge in Germany, the instant revulsion of British sentiment against Naziism. Chuckleheaded Rothermere dropped Blackshirt Mosley like...
...Fortnight ago a beauteous young German woman arrived in the U. S. with two little girls in blonde pigtails, a flaxen-haired boy waving a U. S. flag, a babe-in-arms. They were Dodger Bergdoll's wife & children, come to visit his 76-year-old mother in Philadelphia and petition the Federal Government to pardon him, give back his confiscated $800,000 fortune, let him return to the U. S. a citizen. The Government promptly indicated it would do no such thing. In Germany this week Fugitive Bergdoll announced he would surrender to the U. S. and stand...
Privately as well as professionally Arthur Sulzberger was in many ways the ideal crown prince. Naturally as retiring as his Chief, he and his wife avoid public show, work hard for their numerous charities. They like to visit with their friends the Morgenthaus, the Marcossons, the Roger Strauses (American Smelting), or drive through Brooklyn's back streets to find some dinky restaurant where the steaks are thick and juicy. Their social calendar includes two invariable annual events. One is the Once-a-Year Poker & Pretzel Club, for which Mr. Sulzberger & friends were obliged to journey to Washington this year...