Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emergency re-enforcements are expected to be added to the Yard police force today following Colonel Charles R. Apted's admission that he expects a visit from "one of the girls" who was frustrated in the Wellesley attempt to dress John Harvard Wednesday...
...Washington last week for his second visit in a fortnight was Senator Taft's neck & neck rival (so far) for their party's main 1940 prize. District Attorney Tom Dewey of New York put in an evening last fortnight getting acquainted with his fellow Michigander and No. 2 rival for the nomination, Senator Vandenberg. Last week he put in some long hours with Joe Martin, Minority Leader of the House. Joe Martin agrees with Minority Leader McNary of the Senate that unless the Republicans feel in 1940 that they can win with anybody, Tom Dewey is the glamor...
...almost a year the 61-year-old Sir Ronald has wanted to retire. Early this week the British Government granted his wish, appointed as a successor an equally high-powered statesman, the 57-year-old Marquess of Lothian. He will take his Washington post soon after the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to the U. S. in June...
University of Tampa is a small institution, eight years old. Recently its president, John Harvey Sherman, was surprised to receive a visit from Baron Edgar von Spiegel, a World War submarine commander, now German consul general at New Orleans. Their conversation had not gone far before it appeared to Mr. Sherman that the Baron had come to make a highly dishonorable proposal: that the university establish a German professorship with Nazi money, the professor and textbooks to be chosen by the Baron. Mr. Sherman ordered the Baron to get out of his office before he called a sheriff...
...Manhattan for a visit landed Idaho-born Poet Ezra Loomis Pound, loudest and funniest U. S. expatriate. Still arrogant, shrill, red-bearded, he readily announced: "I came over only because I'm curious. ... I regard the literature of social significance as of no significance. It is pseudo-pink blah. . . . The best practical economic stuff is being written in Italy today. Men write there for audiences of 500 or 600, say what they want and make sense...