Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereupon Turkish police paid a third visit to the Maiotis. Samuel Insull was in his pajamas. They ordered him to come with them as he was and prepared to carry out their command by force. As a concession they finally allowed him to dress. Then they put him in their launch and carried him ashore in a pouring rain. They arraigned him in a Turkish court. An interpreter was found who knew little Turkish and less English. The court debated: was Samuel Insull a Turkish citizen? No. Was his crime political or military? No. Therefore he should be detained, handed...
...their perverted craving for martyrdom and submit as a Christian duty. Govern the tongue, that unruly member. The church conflict has filled the mass of our people with astonishment, scorn and bitterness, for they cannot understand why pastors should quarrel. Nothing cures the itch for church politics like a visit to the sick...
Last month Harvard Professor Elliott Carr Cutler, 1909 Class Marshal, remembered his pleasant post-graduate visit with "Putzy's" family in Munich. To the reunion invitation Professor Cutler added a personal note asking "Putzy" to be an aide and wear a silk hat and a frock coat again at Cambridge in June. In Berlin last week, invitation in hand, exuberant, psychic Herr Hanfstaengl bubbled: "I am looking forward to the reunion with the greatest anticipation. I may even, as a surprise, take with me my film, Hans Westmar [TIME, Dec. 25]. That film can show better than any words...
...will be withdrawn from Haiti by Nov. 1 and the policing of the Caribbean republic by the U. S. trained Garde d'Haiti will have commenced 30 days before. That left only the withdrawal of Customs Receiver De La Rue as a reason for President Vincent's visit to the U. S. But chances were slight, that he will succeed on his mission. President Vincent's argument that Haiti's finances are in excellent shape is the same one Washington uses to keep Watchdog...
...York's Mayor LaGuardia has lately popped in on many a city department for an early-morning surprise visit. The Health Department's laboratories, which he visited last week, were the first place he found everyone on time and hard at work. After that dynamic Mayor LaGuardia was inclined to make an exception to the city's age-limit rule, let Assistant Director Williams stay...