Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairmen have been selected to organize groups which will visit the Freshman dormitories, the Houses, the Business School, and upperclassmen who do not live in Houses. They are: Peter W. Hoguet '37 for the Yard, Charles B. Feibleman '36 for Adams House, Edwin N. Kimball '35 for Dunster House, James M. Estabrook '34 for Eliot House, Shaun Kelly '36 for Kirkland House, John M. Morse '34 for Leverett House, Arthur W. Todd '35 for Lowell House, William L. West 1GB for the Business School...
...President enjoyed an amiable visit from Brown Derby Democrat John J. Raskob, a Warm Springs benefactor who had gone South to hear Trustee Roosevelt accept a new administration building and dining hall for the sanitarium...
...Soviet Union and endure in the concrete of Dnieprostroy" Dam, but he singled out as "probably the oldest friend of the Soviet Union in America" none other than that dramatic victim of amnesia, Col. Raymond Robins who wandered off among the mountains of North Carolina while en route to visit President Hoover (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932, et seq.). In Russia, where the Colonel headed a U. S. Red Cross mission in bloody 1917 and which he revisited on Red May Day 1933, Raymond Robins is known as a man of phenomenal memory, able to recall in minute detail his conversations...
...first visit in nine years was stately Maxine Elliott (Jessie Dermot), 62, once famed as the most beauteous U. S. actress. Trained by Dion Boucicault, one of the numerous wives and leading ladies of Comedian Nat Good win, she became a star in 1903. When Ethel Barrymore met her in 1903, she exclaimed: "The Venus de Milo - with arms!" Maxine Elliott toured the U. S.. Australia, and England, won the favor of Britain's merry monarch Edward VII. A shrewd business woman who multiplied her earnings, she abruptly left the stage in 1920, eleven years after building Manhattan...
...waited to see whether the Gordon prize would fall to the General Foods crowd, led by its hustling Chairman Edward F. ("Ed") Hutton and Thomas L. Chadbourne, or to National Distillers for whom, for the sake of his insurance business, James Roosevelt was doing some discreet wangling, including a visit at the White House with his father for the bigwigs...