Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Eisenhower's four-day visit was a personal triumph-and something more. Canadians appreciated his direct, sincere praise of Canadian fighting men, the way he stepped from his car in the sleet for an unscheduled salute to the National War Memorial, and stood between Prime Minister Mackenzie King and the Earl of Athlone and sang God Save the King. They liked the honesty with which he said he hated war, would "devote what talents I have for the rest of my days to working for peace...
...ailments. The relationship between a Negro doctor and white Georgians was awkward at first, but Dr. Funderburg's competence has won him respect. Now 57, he shuttles busily between modest frame offices in both counties, where whites wait their turn along with Negroes. Among white people who visit him regularly are a bank official, a school teacher, several members of prominent Georgia families...
...Report. Though principles had often outrun performance, MacArthur's 19-section report showed this enormous undertaking begun. Items: ¶ There has been "growing consciousness of Japan's war guilt." ¶ Schools, teachers and textbooks are being completely reformed. (Last week MacArthur invited 30 leading U.S. educators to visit Japan and make recommendations.) ¶ Instead of thought control, "the press, radio, cinema and theater are now free to express themselves." ¶ The number of Japanese magazines has increased from 32 to 306. ¶ Among the new radio programs: The Man on the Street, The Woman's Hour...
...Commission was due to visit Tokyo this week, and MacArthur planned to "cooperate fully" with it. But one of his senior officers summed up the prevailing attitude more realistically. The purpose of the Commission's trip, he said, was "a little sightseeing, a little souvenir buying, and some education...
...lined with doctors' offices. The Moennigs sit at benches side by side, poking quietly into ailing old masters with scrapers, knives, gouges, chisels. In a safe in their workshop are $250,000 worth of old fiddles which they take out and study constantly. To Violist Primrose a visit to their shop is "like going to a doctor. You say 'I feel this,' 'I don't feel that' and they will sit up with the instrument all night as though it were a sick child...