Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President went off for a last visit with his 92-year-old mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, at Grandview, Mo., then drove back to Independence. Next morning he was aboard the presidential plane (which he calls "The Sacred Cow"), on his way to Washington and points east...
Flyers welcomed news of additional emergency landing fields. Two platoons of Negro troops landed on six pinpoint islands between Saipan and Iwo, and took them at the cost of a single pistol shot. Back from a visit to the Marianas, General of the Army Henry H. Arnold announced that Superforts would soon operate from Okinawa, cutting over 1,000 miles from their round trip to Japan...
From strong-willed Queen Mary, the Belgian Queen received right royal counsel: Leopold must "be a King." Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte asked King Leopold to pay her a visit. Luxembourg is Belgium's southeastern neighbor. From St. Wolfgang, King Leopold promptly announced that there was "no question of abdicating," that he was proceeding with the formation of a new government...
Charles A. Lindbergh, abroad on a technical mission, made his sixth visit to Paris since the liberation, found it unlike the old days (1927). He reported: "I've been stopped on the street only once...
Louise Macy Hopkins, pretty wife of Harry L. Hopkins ("American women are pretty, but Russian women are really beautiful"), reporting in Paris her own impressions of Russia during her Moscow visit with Harry, called Joseph Stalin "a complete charmer as soon as you get to know...