Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather-beaten Liberator bomber which had taken Winston Churchill to Moscow, Casablanca and Turkey eased down on Washington's airport last week, bringing Britain's handsome, faultlessly groomed Robert Anthony Eden on his second visit to the U.S. The first time, in 1938, he was temporarily out of public life in protest against Chamberlain appeasement-he came to make little speeches, lay wreaths and inspect CCC camps. This time, as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Leader of the House of Commons and Churchill's heir-presumptive, he came on urgent and secret business...
...will have the run of the White House, will confer with Wendell Willkie, Soviet Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff, Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong. He may make one formal speech, perhaps in Maryland (over which his great-great-grandfather, Sir Robert Eden, once ruled as colonial Governor), plans also to visit U.S. war plants, military and naval establishments...
...William, explaining his 200,000-word plan to Americans in London, admitted that it will be feasible financially only if the peace is made to bring full employment to the British people. His next task: to draft a plan to lick postwar unemployment. To that end, he will soon visit the U.S. and Canada to study their postwar economic problems...
...little more of it now that Disbursing Afloat is out of the way. Some of us had tea at the Longfellow House the other afternoon and had a lovely time being shown about by a descendant of the original Longfellow. Others of us had a pleasant visit at Camp Miles Standish on Sunday where we enjoyed meeting some Canadian officers who put our boys to shame in the glory of their plaid trousers and ties to match...
...William Beveridge has been invited to visit the Business School and address faculty and student body during his American stay. Sir William, as chairman of the British Committee on Reconstruction Problems, is the author of the much discussed "Beveridge Report" on "Social Insurance and Allied Services", considered by many to be the outstanding document of this century in the field of social progress...