Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most controversial measures in Harry Truman's program were still to be met. After the recess, the House would tackle the Administration's bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley Law. Administration strategists figured that a short visit with the home folks would win many Congressmen over to the Administration's side. Just to be sure, from A.F.L. and C.I.O. headquarters, orders went to locals all over the country. When Congressmen turned in the front gate, they would find delegations waiting on the front doorstep. A Democratic leader hopefully predicted: "We're going to pass a pretty...
...other insurgents, but the Burmese found time to devote themselves to their own ancient rites. Happy as New Orleans folk at Mardi Gras, they went about laughing and dousing each other with water. It was the Thingyan or Water Festival, the Burmese New Year celebration occasioned by the annual visit of the great god Thi-gya-min (King of Good Spirits) to earth...
...first visit to the Pan American Union since becoming Secretary of State last January, Dean Acheson picked Pan American Day.* In the Council chamber of the white marble building the delegates to the Organization of American States awaited him. They hoped that he would use the occasion to spell out what President Truman's Point Four would mean in economic aid to their countries...
...love America and Americans, and anyone who does not like them or appreciate their character is henceforth my enemy," announced British Poet-Novelist Sir Osbert Sitwell, back in England after a lecture visit to the U.S. He had found the American people warmhearted, aware of their responsibilities and impatient of injustice, he said. Another virtue: "The Americans have something which is missing in England today-beautiful manners." Sir Osbert even had a gaudy tribute for New York, "the most beautiful and inspiring of modern creations, the sole heir to Alexandria, Constantinople and Venice." In Pittsburgh, whose smoke she spoofs...
...After a visit by Cowboy Cinemactor Roy Rogers, during which some 4,000 swarming youngsters almost swallowed him up before police reinforcements arrived, Denver's Mayor Quigg Newton used his weekly radio chat to apologize for City Hall's unpreparedness. Explained the mayor: "[The police] had no advance knowledge of the effect this particular movie star produces on children...