Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Permit me to extend a cordial invitation to Babbitt to visit the Paris Exposition in 1937," said the French General Commissioner of the exposition. Edmond Labbe, speaking at the American Club in Paris. "I know he would appreciate our exposition of art and technique. It will be an exposition made for Babbitt and his kind in other nations, be they called Durand and du Pont, Smith and Jones, or Ivanov and Levy...
Noble indeed is the owner of Neunkirchen's vast ironworks, Countess Sierstorpü. Said she on a visit to London fortnight ago: "The women of the Saar adore Hitler; he is so sweet, so gentle, so kind! All true German women adore him. I once took 60 women to meet him and they wept unashamedly in their emotion. Three things make the Realmleader adorable to the German woman. First, his sublime kindness. Second, his intense patriotism. Third, his standard of truthfulness and sincerity. Ach, you should see his eyes! You should look into them. Truth and sincerity shine...
...Duce was well represented at Mr. Boomer's dinner. Retiring president of IHA was Cesare Pinchetti, on his first visit to the U. S. Like his father before him Signor Pinchetti owns Rome's Hotel Bristol, where visiting royalties used to stay. He speaks for the Italian hotel industry in the National Council of the Corporative State (see p. 23). Short, stout and 46, he was more excited last week over the prospect of seeing Niagara Falls than over the Waldorf dinner...
...first and only time during his Presidency, again to vote and hear election returns which put him out of the White House. Franklin Roosevelt might have sent to Hyde Park for an absentee ballot this year, alleging that business kept him in Washington. But, ever ready to visit his mother's estate overlooking the Hudson River, he made the election (see p. 14) an occasion to go home for a four-day rest and cast his ballot in person in Hyde Park's town hall...
...getting to be the regular thing for candidates to journey to Washington, and in company with prominent politicians to visit the various departments, secure pledges for the expenditure of millions of dollars in their district, or state, or city and to then tell the voters that this money was furnished by the Administration, and that they are in duty bound to support the hand that feeds them. . . . What is this but the buying of votes? It is a bold and insolent attempt to corrupt the electorate...