Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must take the count before he gets paid off, had surprisingly good luck last week. The House gave it $58,000,000 - $20,000,000 more than last year. This minor miracle was wrought after five members of the powerful and cautious Appropriations Committee made a sur prise visit to OWI's nine-story Overseas Division in Manhattan. The skeptical Congressmen went in to scoff, came out to praise. Glowed Indiana's Louis Ludlow: "I will venture to say that no other activity of the war is run with as little waste." Even New York's Roosevelt...
...quiet power, General Alexander never raises his voice to give an order. He neither seeks nor avoids publicity, is completely undisturbed by the fact that more colorful generals are better known to the Allied public. He dislikes military fanfare. On a visit. to General Leese's Eighth Army headquarters last week he was escorted by a swarm of motorcycles with sirens screaming. Before starting back to his headquarters he thanked and dismissed them. "Awfully bad manners," he said, "to have those chaps chasing the troops off the roads...
...future of his protege. King George II of Greece, Mr. Churchill said not a word. Of the King's recent past, the Prime Minister said warmly that George had risked his life to visit his troubled forces in Egypt, hasten Greek unity...
...aviator came to visit them. "Veronica!" he cried. "The cross [the Count] is wearing is the one you gave me!" It was the masked man. Veronica divorced the Count...
Head of the department of virus diseases at the Institute of Experimental Medicine in Moscow, Dr. Smorodintzov received the Stalin Award for Distinguished Service for his work in encephalitis. He is in America as a guest of the Rockefeller Foundation, this being his first visit outside Russia...