Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little more than a courtesy visit. Mr. Hoover is traveling too rapidly to have time really to become acquainted with men and things along the way. Nor need we look for immediate political or economic results, except in so far as the visit influences Mr. Hoover's policy and that of his government after March 4 next. The development of American trade depends largely, if not solely, upon our ability to offer better goods at better prices. And improved political relations depend upon the policy of our Department of State in Caribbean America, and upon the way our Congress manipulates...
...Latin American has no illusions in such matters. He may be flattered by Mr. Hoover's visit. He will welcome the opportunity of obtaining a personal impression of so important a national and international figure. But he will wait calmly for the results as reflected in American policy. And the visit should be productive of results in closer and more cordial inter-American relationships...
...needs to do is to visit our group of well children to be convinced of our care of them under the Vita glass. I wish every home and institution that cares for children might have Vita glass...
...first time a Republican President had ever made a visit of any duration in Virginia. Crowds cheered the Coolidge progress through Staunton and Waynesboro to the Swannanoa Country Club, overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. Thanksgiving gifts poured up the mountain-a monster fruit cake, a dozen quail, a juicy Virginia ham, six boxes of apples, a monster turkey...
...fiancee amounts to nothing. The children and the mistress fight with each other for the lawyer. Why the children are not spanked by their father and told to stay at home is not explained. Instead they invade the mistress' apartment or ask her in ill-bred fashion to visit theirs. Somehow, Author Meehan makes their bad behavior seem excusable so that the audience hopes that both mistress and children will get the lawyer. Owing to the skilled advices of a friend of the mistress, both do. William Boyd, once Quirt in What Price Glory, is the bone of contention...