Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lady Lindsay and her social secretary, Irene Boyle, had previously snooted Washington newshens and refused reasonable requests for information on such occasions as the visit of Anthony Eden. Even visiting British sobsisters who were received by Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House found Lady Lindsay too busy to receive them at the British Embassy. Last week frosty-haired Lady Lindsay prepared the press for the goodwill visit of the King and Queen by commenting on the bad manners of the U. S. press as she told them how Americans would have to behave. The newshens answered her back, unimpressed...
Other power politicking of the week: > Air Marshal Italo Balbo, not to be outdone by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, interrupted his direction of Libya's war preparations last week to pay a visit to neighboring Egypt. In interviews with the press and King Farouk the bearded Marshal professed friendly sentiments for Egypt, but just to be on the safe side Cairo planned a mock air-raid and black-out after he had gone...
...Polish War Minister Tadeusz Kasprzycki arrived in Paris, first high Polish military man to visit France in three years. Ostensibly bent on "private business," he was nevertheless met at the railway station by French Chief of National Defense General Maurice Gamelin...
...thinks so because they are not getting "the straight" tip on Economics and American History," as he put it in an interview yesterday before he left Cambridge after a brief visit during which he read some cantos in a Morris Gray lecture...
Last week in London King George and Queen Elizabeth, before sailing for Canada (see p. 24), went to hear Maestro Arturo Toscanini conduct a Beethoven concert in Queen's Hall. During the intermission the King invited the Maestro to visit him in the royal box. The Maestro, who once shushed Mussolini for talking during a concert, sent word that a royal presentation would distract him too much...