Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publisher of the Atlanta Journal, to the Senate vacancy caused by the death of William J. Harris. Governor Russell thus has the Journal's backing, while Mr. Crisp has the support of Clark Howell's Atlanta Constitution. Against him is being used the charge that, after a visit from Georgia Power Co.'s Preston Stanley Arkwright, he consented to a new provision in the revenue bill putting the electricity tax on consumers instead of producers. For him is being used the claim that he is Georgia's most distinguished statesman at the U. S. Capitol...
...advise her, the first time he had seen her since she returned to the U. S. in 1921 with Mr. Krenn. Although Brother John is not thought to have aided his sister to a great extent, the reconciliation is said to be such that soon she may pay a visit to the Rockefeller Patriarch at Pocantico Hills. Chicago imagines that when she does, Mr. Krenn will not accompany her. For much as the Rockefellers respect his untiring devotion, and his confidence that she "will again be the richest woman in Chicago," they have had small respect for the business advice...
From New York toward Barrington, Ill., to visit his mother & stepfather (Mrs. Fifi Stillman McCormick & Fowler McCormick) flew Alexander Stillman, 20, son of Banker James Alexander Stillman, in his own airplane. Near Gary, Ind. he cracked up, was taken to a hospital. Flying to his bedside that night in a chartered plane Mr. & Mrs. McCormick cracked up, were not hurt...
...behavior as her characters were worldly, Lady Murasaki (Murasaki, no Shikibu) belonged to a junior branch of the Fujiwara family, married a kinsman, joined the court of the Empress Akiko when he died. The Genji Monogatari, in 54 books, was finished in 1004 or a little earlier. Tourists who visit the Lake Biwa Temple of Ishiyama can see what legend calls Lady Murasaki's room and a scrap of the handwriting in which she composed the first Nipponese novel, some 700 years ahead of England's Fielding...
...week-end visit to London, tall, astute Sir John had apparently been convinced by the British Admiralty and General Staff that the President's proposals should be "allowed to pass like a Christmas message." In this purpose Sir John was ably abetted by the Government of Japan, grateful for the legal prowess he displayed in Japan's behalf when Manchuria was last up before the League (TIME, March 21). Peremptory instructions to oppose the Hoover program at all costs were cabled from Tokyo to Japan's Chief Delegate at Geneva, Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira, father-in-law of Japan's Crown...