Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hindenburg and Chancellor Briining, departed advising them to "keep a stiff upper lip." At Rogart in Scotland he had rented a farmhouse on the Duke of Sutherland's estate, rested for a month. Prime Minister MacDonald motored the 120 mi. from Lossiemouth to pay him a two-day visit. Later Mr. Stimson had to deny formally that they had discussed War debt revision...
...York Stock Exchange, has the reputation of being the stormiest bear on the Floor. He makes a pet, however, of Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co.; whenever this issue is mentioned he becomes a beaming bull. Fortnight or so ago Bear Smith departed for a vacation, announced he would visit Alaska, inspect Juneau's plants. Last week he saw the mines, bought a souvenir. It was a $25,000 brick of solid gold, weighing nearly 100 pounds. "Brick No. 1,000" will probably be sent to Bear Smith's office, set where it will bedazzle all who lack faith...
...Tasco Davis, had a diplomatic passport made out for himself & fish, with pictures of all three. The passport requested that "all skeptics into whose hands these presents shall come give full credence to the tales Senor Richey may tell. . . ." Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils of the Denver Post went to visit on a ranch west of Fort Collins, Col. With his host and another friend he wandered along the Cache Poudre River. Publisher Bonfils saw a pool of rainbow trout. "Try 'em if you like," said his host, "but they won't rise to the fly." Publisher Bonfils...
High score for silly talk was always given to the late great Stephen Decatur, whose Our-Country-Right-Or-Wrong speech runs in the Tribune's massed-head as its slogan. When Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Tribune, made his annual inspection visit, someone was told off to stand in front of the score board. Last week Publisher McCormick, inspecting his Paris branch, had other things to think of beside blackboards. He learned that his European paper had been wizened to its winter size (eight and twelve pages) all summer, that the competing U.S. daily, the Paris...
When King Alfonso XIII of Spain passed through Paris on his way back to Madrid last March he dropped in to visit his good friend Jose Maria Sert. On view at Senor Sert's studio were the great murals he had just painted for the Duke of Alba's elaborate Palacio de Liria. Wrought chiefly in tones of gold, the paintings represented the history of the Alba family, several of whom are saints, since the 14th Century. By the time Alfonso XIII got home, abdicated and got back to Paris, Artist Sert was well along with his next...