Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was Governor Roosevelt's "fight talk" last week to 500 campaign workers at Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore. It was his first visit to his national headquarters. He had just returned from his Southern tour, with his voice hoarse and the lining of his felt hat hanging out. After a handshake and a smile all around, he sped to Albany where Al Smith visited him for the first time in nearly a year...
...permit to speak in Reyburn Plaza across from City Hall where President Hoover was to make an address three days later, on the ground that it was reserved for "rest and recreation." Officials explained that the President would not need a permit because his appearance would be "a friendly visit of historical importance." Nominee Thomas without a permit addressed 4,000 in the plaza: "This is not a political meeting, but a class in history. Next Monday your Superintendent of Public Education, William S. Vare, will introduce a distinguished historian, Herbert Clark Hoover, who will discuss wild life...
Detailed instructions are given for those travellers who might wish to visit Harvard, as well as a careful description of the parts of Boston which must be traversed in the journey. One had to pass through the "bustling streets of Cambridgeport," past "rows of the mansions of prosperous merchants of Boston," until "we finally come into sight of the Harvard Yard...
Hoover on Harding. "This is my fourth visit to Marion," declared President Hoover during a two-minute stop at the home of the late Warren Gamaliel Harding. "I visited it in 1920 when your fellow-citizen was Republican candidate for President. I visited it again when we buried him, a man broken in the service of his country. I visited it again to dedicate the memorial you erected to his memory. There is no occasion for me to extol his great qualities of geniality, of friendship and devotion to his country ... to go into the sad disloyalties to him which...
...coast, daily usefulness, and moral significance." He would remind no one of Professor James, who lecturing in Emerson D, would glance across the heads of his listeners at the Gothic tower and exclaim: "Gentlemen, take Memorial Hall for instance. What else could you take it for!" Nor would he visit Memorial Hall sixty years after, to see the deserted dining hall, cramped Sanders Theatre, the squalid ruin of false tiffany. For the Vagabond sees only the frost-blushed ivy on a fine full day in the dawnlight, remembers only the inspiring sight of the citadel lighted blue green by moonlight...