Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Travel. The candidate must move about the country. Not aimlessly, of course, or just hoping he will be seen. He must be supplied with places to go, people to visit, ceremonies in which to participate. Dedications of bridges, schools, memorials-especially statues of great dead leaders of the party are especially good. If the candidate is a Southerner, he should get a summer home in the North; Northerners should winter in the South...
...over the great progress and development of Turkey. ... I see everywhere that same courage and imagination which distinguish such great men of today as Colonel Lindbergh and Henry Ford. . . . Take for example the changeover from the Arabic alphabet, the abolition of the fez and construction work in Angora. My visit in Angora ended with an inspection of the President's farm. There I found difficulties similar to those encountered in Arizona...
...last exhibition were Manhattan skyscrapers and views of a Maine coast familiar to Marinites. New were the pictures of New Mexico, vivid snapshots of pueblos, mountains, Indian dances, made during a summer visit to Taos...
...hardly appreciate the changes that have occurred. One of course expects to visit American business offices entirely for business, but it's a common experience nowadays to do so for quite another purpose. Often you find on arrival stores of liquor present that you don't want, but it is usually offered to you. "Washington, from being a very desirable place, has become a very undesirable place. ... If you ask me if the liquor situation in America is improving or growing worse, I'd say, from my observations, worse - decidedly worse! It is really embarrassing to visit...
...tapestries from cartoons by Boucher, and the gem of the collection, "The Burgomaster's Daughter" by Lucas Cranach. Impulsively, M. le President rushed forward and wrung the hand of the spry little old gentleman who had given all this to France. "Monsieur Tuck," said M. Doumergue, "this visit has been a real joy to me. Your latest munificence will perpetuate your name in the memory of a grateful France. Monsieur Tuck, we practically consider you a Frenchman!" It was a heartfelt if somewhat startling compliment. As every French social ite knows, leaders of the U. S. colony in Paris...