Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great rapprochement between Messrs. Ford & Roosevelt. In fact, it seemed to have had no point at all. When Mr. Ford emerged at 2:55 p. m., he b-r-r-d gently at hungry newshawks and hopped into the Lincoln. Cried a reporter: "Did you have a pleasant visit?" Said Mr. Ford: "Sure...
...doubt of Mr. Ford's post-visit attitude toward the New Deal remained, he would have removed it by his subsequent performances in New York. This, too, was a rare occasion for him. Not since 1932, when he boomed Herbert Hoover for reelection, had Henry Ford delivered a formal address, and he was in New York to address the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Beforehand, he again yielded to clamorous newsmen and received them in a private dining room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel...
Someone remarked that Mr. Ford seemed to have enjoyed his White House visit. Said Mr. Ford: "You never heard me say anything against him, did you? What's the use, what's the use? He's like all the rest of us, trying to do the best he can. Don't you think...
...minimum in 1941; and a maximum hour schedule of 44 hours a week, reduced two hours a year to 40 hours in 1940. What the bill lacked was a regional differential to permit Southern industry to continue reflecting climatic and racial differences in lover wage scales. Day before his visit to the White House, Mr. O'Connor glibly announced that the new bill would pass "if it ever gets to the floor." At week's end its chances of getting to the floor this session were effectively demolished when five Southern Democrats and three Republicans voted against...
Industriously in London last week solid, bull-necked French Premier Edouard Daladier and lean, hawk-nosed British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain did their potent best to spoil the grandiose State visit which pudgy, mystic Adolf Hitler was to make to Italy this week, escorted by a retinue of 170 German officials, plus 70 German editors, plus 84 German photographers. The privileged photographers were fitted out last week for the first time in blue-grey uniforms with a visored cap and flowing cape. The privileged German editors each received two blue-black uniforms and six pairs of gloves, were warned...