Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ponce on the south coast of Porto Rico (see map, p. 8). Next morning President Hoover went ashore, was welcomed by Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico. Bands crashed. Natives cheered. For them it was a double holiday?the 58th anniversary of the abolition of slavery and the second visit to Porto Rico by a U. S. President. At the City Hall the President was presented with a large tablecloth on which had been embroidered elaborate flower designs. Governor Roosevelt had asked President Hoover to leave behind his top-hat and tailcoat because few Porto Ricans own such ceremonial attire...
...moved along the highway the President could see wide fields of sugar cane, with tobacco on higher ground and coffee cultivation on the uplands of the red clay mountains which caused the elder Roosevelt on his 1906 visit to call the island the "Switzerland of America...
...Army the brunt of the German attack. After the Marne, Foch became assistant to Joffre, held this position until he went into temporary political banishment with the appointment of Nivelle as French Commander-in-Chief. In 1917 Foch became Chief of the French General Staff, made a flying visit to Italy to rally the Italian armies fleeing from Caporetto. In January 1918 he was urged as supreme Allied commander. British military opposition kept him from the commission. In March the British 5th Army under General Gough ran before the last desperate German offensive...
...What is it about Russian music that creates such a tension in you?" asked famed Polish-English Conductor Leopold Stokowski in Manhattan last week, after stating that he will soon be off on his first visit to the Soviet Union. Answering his own question, the Conductor continued...
Candidates trying out for the News department will be assigned to definite news sources which they will visit every day for possible stories. Aside from these assignments special emphasis will be placed on "scoops", stories or interviews, secured outside these assignments. Stories will be written up every day, for the next morning's paper. This work involves not only all the experience which is derived from news writing, but also affords an excellent opportunity for understanding the organization of the College, and for meeting members of the faculty. Work for the first week will be light, until the candidates become...