Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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YOUR ISSUE OF SEPT. 29 GROSSLY EXAGGERATES HURRICANE VISIT TO MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST. YOUR STORY, APPARENTLY BASED ON ERRONEOUS NEWS DISPATCHES, HAS ADDED TO NATIONWIDE CONCERN FOR OUR PEOPLE WHO, EXCEPT FOR SMALL LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY LOSS ESPECIALLY TO BUILDINGS IN CERTAIN AREAS SOUTH OF THE BEACH BOULEVARDS, ARE MUCH ALIVE...
When Sproul was not in Sacramento, backslapping and bulldozing the legislators, he was hitting the road to visit his most influential "constituents"-the farmers. Sproul convinced them that the university was doing a good job, sold himself in the bargain. In 1930, when he was only 39, Sproul, who had never taught a class in his life, and had only a bachelor's degree, became president of the University of California...
...Winchell to Vishinsky: "If the people of Russia knew the facts, you might be a defendant, instead of a prosecutor." Winchell accepted a sarcastic Vishinsky "invitation" to visit Russia, provided other U.S. newsmen could go along. Said he: "I wouldn't be able to lie ... with so many rivals present...
...wise to clear out of Germany, he contrived to smuggle out several pounds of his day-to-day private notes on the Nazis and their antics. These became Berlin Diary, which nearly a million Americans bought for a sideline view of Hitler Germany in action. Now, on a return visit to Berlin, Shirer conducts his readers into the whipped team's locker room, where all is groans, whimpers-and hopes of war between the U.S. and Russia...
...film, made up of extracts from thousands of feet of celluloid shot all over the world during the past six years, was first released in Rio de Janeiro at the time of President Truman's visit there...