Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lived in the U.S., teaching at New York's New School for Social Research. He had taken the job of minister in the forlorn hope that Hungary's Communist-dominated "coalition" government could be brought to a more friendly attitude toward the democratic U.S. After a "refresher" visit back home last year, he knew that that job was all but impossible. Last week he loosed a blast at his government, and also announced his intention of becoming a U.S. citizen. Said he: "I feel more at home here...
...Chaim Weizmann, 73-year-old Jewish leader who was elected President of the Provisional Government of Israel, made his first state visit this week to the President of the U.S. Blair House, official guest house for visiting foreign dignitaries, hung out the blue and white flag of the world's newest nation. For Zionists it was another moment for rejoicing...
...little Free Church of Scotland, strict Highland offshoot of the Church of Scotland, passed a resolution expressing "grief and concern" that the royal couple, in their visit to Paris (TIME, May 24) had indulged in "racing, theater and nightclub dancing on the Lord...
Last week, in the $1.5 million chapel where Hummers meet for prayer and hymns, but where no minister has ever set foot, Harry Truman ended his visit to the Hum. After a happy day "knee-high in boys," he had tried Hum-Muds-the college's special ginger cakes. Then he ad-libbed nostalgically of the days when he was a boy and milked cows, split wood, cleaned oil lamps. Things were different now: "this great country has only started on its career . . . Oh," cried the President, "I wish I were 18 . . . I wish I had the same opportunities...
Last week a Manhattan gallery exhibited Berman's latest paintings. They showed a striking new power. He had been to Mexico, and the visit had inspired the best work of his career...