Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begun to act. The President received a delegation of southern Congressmen and planters whose demand for 20? cotton had been shunted about Washington for days. They got into the White House only on the promise that they would hush their inflation talk and stick to cotton. Day after their visit the President announced that the Agricultural Adjustment Administration would lend planters 10? per Ib. on unsold cotton, provided they agreed to reduce their 1934 crop 40%, their 1935 crop 25%. That was 1? per Ib. above the spot market price and represented a potential outlay...
...Majesty the suave scamp explained the Venetian lottery system. This Louis XV promptly introduced into France, with Casanova as manager, later conferred on him a pension which enabled him to visit and seduce elegant ladies in all parts of Europe. Until recently the Third Republic has scorned to stoop to lotteries, but two months ago Finance Minister Bonnet decided he must take the plunge. Last week he put on sale a batch of 2,000,000 lottery tickets, soon to be followed by four similar batches...
...Author, though casual readers might not guess it, is a serious League-of-Nations woman; her interest in Africa, based on her work for the League and a six-months' visit in 1926, is more than academic. After her return from Africa to England she made a point of meeting every African visitor she could, says: "At one time our house seemed to be an enquiry bureau to which students from the Gold Coast, Nigeria or Tanganyika came uninvited for help with examination papers in constitutional law. or advice as to where to buy winter woollens." Daughter...
...beauty contest, he lost his head with his heart. Ida was out of the same social drawer as Charlie, but she had ambitions: she really believed she was well on the road to Hollywood. While she was still in the midst of her tinsel glory Charlie went home to visit a sick aunt...
California's lanky Senator William Gibbs McAdoo & wife sailed for Europe. Asked whether there was any official significance in his proposed visit to Russia, Senator McAdoo replied: "Not a damn bit ... I am going as a U. S. Senator looking for information. I can never learn enough about things...