Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Would he visit the U.S. soon...
Perfume from Potsdam. It was getting dark when Harry Truman and his daughter crossed the street to visit his aunt, 96-year-old Mrs. Joseph Noland. He had brought her a present-his framed photograph. For Cousins Nellie and Ethel Noland he had three bottles of perfume, bought at Potsdam...
...next morning, ready for the 20-mile drive to Grandview to visit his 92-year-old mother. He found her well, "as fine as she could be." As usual, she gave him a maternal admonition. "Mother just told me to be careful and I'm trying to follow her advice...
...Nick of Time. Halder decided to strike on the night of Sept. 14. He sent a Panzer division to General von Witzleben at Berlin without arousing suspicion. Just when the coup seemed completely assured of success, London announced the umbrella-toting Prime Minister's impending visit to Hitler's mountain. Halder, shaken by this dramatic evidence of the Führer's political sagacity, called off the plot, thereafter toed the Hitler line. Later, Chamberlain's policy was defended as giving Britain time to prepare. Halder's statement indicated that it was Germany that...
...Duke of Windsor & his Duchess sailed from Manhattan for France, where she will remain while he goes to England to visit Queen Mary for the first time in nine years. The ex-Governor of the Bahamas admitted that a new job might be in the offing: "Though I'm past the half-century mark [51], I still feel that I can be useful." (Columnist Walter Winchell waved the couple a warm goodbye: "Good riddance to them both-the snobs...