Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disappearance of war. Among the elements which go to make for the success of a policy of peace and perhaps the most important is the element of friendly contact and personal acquaintance between statesmen which have developed in the course of conferences on these important subjects. Mr. Kellogg's visit to Paris in 1928, Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to Washington in the Autumn of 1929, and Mr. Stimson's sojourn in London during the Naval Conference, all have given proof of the value of that personal, friendly intercourse which it is the principal task of diplomacy to maintain...
...American colony here in Santiago, looked forward with pride to this, for we anticipated a visit of three men whom we could call countrymen -our own people. The most of us had not heard of these men before, but they represented well known periodicals from home. We knew not the object of their visit, but felt it must be one of importance to Chile, and we so talked to our Chilean friends and associates. Our humiliation and disgrace was complete. . . . Their insults and . . . actions in and about their hotel leaves a trail impossible to eradicate. God help us if American...
TIME issue of April 27, p. 62, reports interestingly about Japanese Prince Takamatsu's visit to the U. S. Naval Academy* amnesty for refractory midshipmen* "First time in the history of the U. S. Navy."WRONG, TIME! When benevolent, generous Albert, King of the Belgians, visited the U. S. after the World War, he requested that the Academy's strict regulations of punishment be set aside the day he reviewed the regiment of middies. Several hundred Navy alumni, many TIME readers, remember joyfully King Albert's thoughtfulness...
...anesthetist, squirted cocaine into the beady left eye of small King Prajadhipok as he reclined in an improvised operating room at Ophir Hall. Then Dr. John Martin Wheeler went to work with tiny instruments and extracted the cataract (clouded crystalline lens) that caused His Majesty's U. S. visit. Soon the King cried gladly: "I see light...
...Philadelphia (where he will get the Franklin Institute's medal). Then he will lecture at Princeton, Yale, Harvard. He accepted another appointment, the Scientific Monthly's invitation to expound the Universe to Manhattanites the evening before be sails back to England.* Between lectures the Jeanses plan a visit with Lady Jeans's mother, Mrs. Annie Tiffany Mitchell of New London. Fellow guests at the Mitchell home will be Senator & Mrs. Hiram Bingham of New Haven. Senator Bingham was a preceptor in history and and politics at Princeton when when Sir James James was was professor of applied...