Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, "young" Jan Masaryk is 57 and the most popular diplomat in London-the most welcome of all those Continental statesmen who habitually visit the U.S. Full of bounce and zest and a bravura that was once described as "something out of the pages of Dumas," the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) extrovert has a selling power that could make Eskimos buy iceboxes. He looks like, and has all the making of, a successful American business man, an elegant European bon vivant, a world-famous orchestra leader, a magnetic political boss. But from his thin lips sometimes come words...
Henry Shapiro, correspondent for the United Press in Moscow, will speak at the oFrd Hall Forum in John Hancock Hall Sunday evening. Shapiro, who just returned from Russia, after distinguishing himself by being the first newspaperman to visit the Stalingrad front, will discuss "The Latest Word from the Russian Front...
...seized Manchuria (1931). Then the Japs dictated what should be taught, constantly suspected "dangerous thoughts." When one faculty member preached a chapel sermon on the exodus of the Israelites, the Japanese arrested him, charged him with preaching against them by parables. At last Dr. Underwood did not even dare visit Korean homes. Whenever he did, the Japanese police carted off his hosts to jail...
Concerning his personal history, he enrolled at the air academy of Peru (roughly comparable to West Point) in 1933 and has been a member of the P.A.F. ever since. Although the present visit is his first to the United States, this Peruvian officer has had a great deal of contact with U.S. military men in his own country, serving as aide-de-camp to several U. S. armed forces representatives, including the present Marine major general, James T. Moore...
...Negroes to visit white schools and vice versa is to tempt them. Novelist Carl Van Vechten (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Peter Whiffle) has done just that with a scheme involving Yale and Fisk Universities...