Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington at week's end, the President plunged into a quick conference on the coal situation, was expected to stay desk-bound for a while. But to every body's surprise, he flew 1,890 miles in 8 hours, 49 minutes for a two-hour Sunday visit with his mother in Grandview, Mo., on the eve of her 94th birthday. He found her "just fine." Last week the President also...
...least three capitals-London, Washington, Ottawa-for months. Some time ago it was rumored that Britain had obtained atomic bombs from the U.S. for stockpiling in the United Kingdom. The rumor proved false. It was also whispered that the U.S. carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, on its recent visit to the eastern Mediterranean, had The Bomb on board. That one also proved untrue...
Chang Chun. Virtually unknown outside of the country (he has just returned from his first visit to America), Governor Chang Chun of rugged Szechwan Province (best known city: Chungking) is China's closest approach to a universally popular political figure. A stocky 58-year-old who looks like an American Indian and who loves bright neckties and ice cream, Chang heads the "Political Science Group," which wants a modernized, industrialized China on a broad, democratic base. Chang has been a Kuomintang executive since 1928, is no left-winger but is equally opposed to the Confucian conservatism of Chen...
Changed Times. By the time the San Francisco Conference met in 1945, the line was changing. Nelson Rockefeller's immoderate success at cajoling Latin American delegates into a voting bloc gave rise to Soviet-American asperities. Just then three Soviet diplomats from Latin America paid Molotov a flying visit. It was soon clear what they had been told: Latin America's Commies soon rediscovered "American imperialism," began to line up an anti-American front-which could be useful when the Soviets bargained with the U.S. at the peace table. It led to strange friendships. Example: Argentina...
When widowed Katherine Tupper Brown told her sons that she was inviting an Army officer named Colonel Marshall to visit them at their home on Fire Island, the lads at once smelt a rat. "If it makes you happier, mother, it is all right with me," said Clifton (14). "I don't know about that. . . ." muttered Allen (12). But soon afterwards, the future Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army received a brief, secret note from Allen: "I hope you will come to Fire Island. Don't be nervous, it is O.K. with me. (Signed) A friend...