Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made the prestige of his name a needed asset in the present Doumergue Cabinet of National Union. To everyone's surprise the 72-year-old Foreign Minister turned out to be more active than almost any of his predecessors. He was the first French Cabinet Minister ever to visit Poland. To do him honor Dictator Pilsudski last April canceled a pleasure trip to Egypt. Amid tremendous acclaim he was feted by Czechoslovakia at Prague, exchanged literary reminiscences with President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. But for Louis Barthou the most fun was his Balkan tour...
...patch up a quarrel which he had had earlier in the year at Geneva with Sir John Simon. He convinced Leader of the British Conservative (majority) Party Stanley Baldwin that the Nazi Reich is a real menace to the peace of Europe. It was after M. Barthou's visit that M. Baldwin startled the world by declaring for His Majesty's Government that the British frontier is now on the Rhine...
...Italian group, consisting of a small group of athletes and a larger group of good-will students, arrived in New York on the Saturnia yesterday and after spending today and tomorrow in New York will leave for the Middle West where they will visit Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana, the Ford Plant and Niagara Falls. They will arrive in Cambridge early in the afternoon of October 4 following a trip through New York state and western Massachusetts...
Swifter than Pele in reacting to Roosevelt charm was ex-Socialist Upton Sinclair, now Democratic nominee for Governor of California. On the night before a visit to Hyde Park Mr. Sinclair, by his own ad- mission, was nervous and slept badly. At 5 o'clock the next afternoon he entered the President's study at Hyde Park for an hour's conference. It was two hours before he emerged. He stripped off his coat, sat down with newshawks and began to burble: "I had the most interesting two hours' talk I ever had in my life...
...week's visit to Manhattan, Sir Henri had calmly announced that railroad electrification was already obsolete, that the Diesel engine was the locomotive of the future. On that score, too, Mr. Sinclair had a ready answer: "What's the difference whether you drink Scotch or bourbon"?a reference to the fact that U. S. railroads already burn some 2,000,000,000 gal. of fuel oil per year...