Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good, brisk trade. There were thousands of New York's Puerto Ricans who wanted to go back home for a visit, but could not pay the $130 fare charged by the regular airline. By crowding them into converted Army transports, however, chartered lines could carry them and make money at only $50 a head. Puerto Ricans are small, and CAA agreed that the nonscheduled planes could load up to the maximum allowable weight, regardless of number, if there was a seat and a safety belt for each passenger...
Governor Thomas E. Dewey hustled his family on board a train at Albany for a trip west. Ostensibly, the trip was a vacation to visit his wife's family in Sapulpa, Okla., his mother in Owosso, Mich, and to show his sons some of the grandeur of the West. Actually, as eleven reporters traveling with him knew, it was a chance to confer with dozens of G.O.P. national committeemen, make news at the Governors' Conference in Salt Lake City, and line up Dewey delegates for the Philadelphia convention next June. Tom Dewey at last...
...where he stood in what Molotov called the "division of Europe." Ferenc Nagy, Hungary's ex-Premier and leader of its Smallholders' Party, sat beside him and nodded approval. Nagy had already symbolically established kinship with the U.S. by donning an American Indian headdress on a recent visit...
...democratic alternative to Communism," continued Baldwin. "We locked up strike leaders. Our present policy is making for a Soviet Korea." Of the Sovietized Korea north of the 38th parallel, Baldwin saw nothing. Although he has defended the civil rights of hundreds of U.S. Communists, the Russians said that a visit from Baldwin would be undesirable...
...signature. Every time sinister-looking Victor Mature moves on to a new sweetheart, the flower is found on an open Bible beside the corpse of the girl he has just left. Peggy Cummins, a cockney showgirl who wants to be a lady, blackmails Mature into taking her for a visit to his elegant country mansion. There she hobnobs uneasily with his jealous fiancée (Patricia Medina) and his magnificent old mother (Ethel Barrymore). She also tries to play detective, and falls in love with her main suspect. Next thing she knows, she is in line for the Bible...