Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oilmen prepared to drill the first well on a ranch far down in the southwest corner of Alberta. Aware of oil deposits elsewhere in the neighborhood, the owner had hired geologists to examine his land. They reported: it's worth trying. Last week the owner, who had not visited the ranch in nearly three years, reached the U.S. Said the owner (the Duke of Windsor) to reporters in Miami (see PEOPLE) : he and the Duchess would visit Washington and Manhattan, and just possibly might stop off at his ranch in Alberta...
...hospital at Zweibrikken, ancient German town in the Pfalz, went Ruth Wegmann to visit her ailing mother. There the kindly young Fraulein saw a wounded Canadian airman, cheered him with a gift of an orange, some flowers, a few bright words...
...Duke of Windsor made his ninth trip to the U.S. since he became Governor of the Bahamas in 1940. With him, making her seventh, was his Duchess. They planned to spend a month in Manhattan, perhaps visit his Canadian ranch (see CANADA...
Madame Chiang Kaishek, who spent three months in a U.S. hospital on her last visit (1942-43) to the Western Hemisphere, arrived by plane in Brazil. She was suffering from nervous exhaustion and insomnia, planned a three-month rest cure. In China, she had been under the care of U.S. Assistant Naval Attaché Commander Frank Harrington, said he had warned her that "I'd never be cured if I stayed in Chungking...
...several weeks with a Negro family in Manhattan. He wanted to find out what Negroes thought about white people. He also preached at Manhattan's big (14,000 members) Abyssinian Baptist Church, whose Pastor A. (for Adam) Clayton Powell was enthusiastic about the Negro children's visit to Vermont. So were Pastor Low's white parishioners...