Word: visitant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pound, University professor emeritus, will accompany Chao when he returns to his homeland this September and will take up advisory duties in the Department of Justice in Nanking. "He is very popular and well known in my country," said Chao, recalling that on the Professor's visit last summer he was an official guest at the villa of President Chiang Kai Shek...
...permitted to use "free speech" as an excuse to incite violence against Jews and Negroes. One need not call up Holmes' now hackneyed, but still valid warning against granting free speech to him who would shout fire in a crowded theatre. The last time Smith spoke in Boston, his visit was followed by the beatings of young Jewish boys in Dorchester and several attacks on Negroes. To quote from the leaflet circulated by the Boston Youth Council: "We believe in free speech, but we will not permit the lecture platform to be used as a center for pogroms and lynchings...
...inaugurated Vice President five months ago, Uruguayans stuck the nickname "Trumancito" on Luis Batlle (pronounced Bat-zhay) Berres. It would not be long, they agreed, before he stepped into the shoes of the President-elect, old (71), frail Tomás Berreta. When Berreta flew to the U.S. to visit President Truman in February, Uruguayans wondered if it would be too much for him. When he took office in March, they wondered how long he could live. Soon he had strength enough only to conduct affairs of. state at his bedside. Last week in a Montevideo hospital long-ailing...
...sure that he can handle the right-wing Herrerista opposition as skillfully as the old man could. Like most Uruguayans he is friendly to the U.S., though last week he expressed reservations about the U.S. hemisphere arms plan. On a trip to Argentina last fortnight he paid his first visit to Perón. He thought he should meet the man, he explained, whose wife was soon going to pay an important visit to Uruguay...
...until Sir Patrick gets to Hudson's Bay House in Winnipeg will he decide just where to visit. Then, says he, "All I have to do is to grab my hat and hop in a plane. The boys know I don't need much out there." Out there, "the Bay," as the company is known, has more than 200 trading posts for the governor to choose from...