Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, conducted his chief & Mrs. Coolidge to the Mellon mansion near the smoky fork of the Allegheny & Monongahela Rivers. In the morning they breakfasted with the Secretary's brother, Richard B. Mellon, in another Mellon mansion. Then President Coolidge drove through the streets to visit, among other places, the Fort Pitt blockhouse and the Washington Cross-his Chief of Staff (see p. 10). a time when George Washington was swept off a raft in the icy Allegheny and almost drowned...
...autumn field-trip has been planned, to take place about October 17, on which the men will visit several large estates in the Berkshires, mainly in Lenox and Stockbridge, to study, sketch, photograph and discuss the main features of their landscape architecture
...Italian woman returned last week to Italy with two sorry souvenirs after a six-week visit to the U. S. She was Miss Luigia Vanzetti, aboard the S. S. Mauretania, with two urns. In one urn were half the ashes of Bartolomeo Vanzetti, her electrocuted, anarchist brother; in the other, half the ashes of Nicola Sacco, her brother's electrocuted, anarchist friend-murderers both, in the eyes of Massachusetts...
Reaching the town hall the Archduke walked up the steps in a towering rage. Snarled he to the mayor: "Mr. Mayor, I come here on a visit and I get bombs thrown at me. It is outrageous. Now you may speak...
There he spoke with mild wonder of a short visit to Atlantic City calculated to lengthen, not abbreviate, his life; deplored the fact that his creditors had "come down so hard" on him, assured everyone that the embezzlement charges brought by a Mrs. Jennie C. H. Denton, who claimed $150,000, need not have been pushed so vigorously; promised: "If I can only get time to do it, I can make these debts good...