Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quick, however, was the Wilhelmstrasse's public reply that it did indeed expect Sir John Simon to make his visit. In London Sir John announced he would go. At this the French felt decidedly let down, since they had concluded from recent conversations that they would be consulted in such situations-and at the first important one had not. Paris learned of the British note and Sir John's decision only after the fact. But, most important to both onetime allies, Herr Hitler had neatly cut the ground from under their feet. All that Britain's Foreign...
...country merchant who had him taught to play the violin, encouraged his taste for writing and directing plays which he and his small friends acted in a granary. Early in the War, Boyer, at 15, ran an amateur company to entertain soldiers. On his visit to Hollywood in 1932, he played a chauffeur in Red-headed Woman, bit parts with Ruth Chatterton, Claudette Colbert. After building up his prestige abroad, he returned last year, made Caravan, went home again because he considered the next rôle offered him unworthy of his talents...
Rothonburg, promoter of the recent Schmeling-Steve Hamas bout, will visit Rome, Vienna, London and other European cities soon to determine where to hold the title match, when--and if--the champion signs...
...fund containing 500.000 Hershey common shares (70% of the total outstanding) which Founder Hershey turned over to it in 1909 when he lost interest in making money. The school teaches useful trades to 800 orphan boys who live in houses scattered so widely over the school grounds that to visit them all would mean a 40-mi. automobile drive. The school and other Hershey companies own nearly everything in the town, including the golf course, the trolley line, the water and electric companies, the department store, the laundry, the roller coaster. With an annual income from its trust fund...
Last month veteran 64-year-old Hilaire Belloc landed at Manhattan, to see his U. S. publisher and rest up before beginning his next book (he has written between 80 and 100. confesses he has lost track of the total). His first visit to the U. S. was in 1896, when he married a California girl (Elodie Agnes Hogan; died 1914). Newshawks found Author Belloc tired and old. He grumbled: "I hate my trade. . . . Everybody hates his trade. I'd like to be a banker, without any work to do in the bank." Author Belloc's prolific output...