Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Lowell, of course, resigned to be succeeded by James B. Conant '12 and last June, the first class that entered with the new President graduated. Since his retirement President Lowell has been seen but rarely by the average undergraduate. He usually makes an annual visit to Lowell House on his birthday, and a dinner is given there...
Stupid Democracies. No small feather in the Führer's bonnet this year was the attendance of virtually the entire Berlin diplomatic corps for a 48-hour flying visit to the Party Congress-hitherto boycotted by democratic diplomats. Noticeable absentees last week, however, were the Papal Nuncio, the Soviet Ambassador. Conspicuous among the foreign envoys were sad-eyed Prentiss Bailey Gilbert, U. S. Charge d'Affaires (who attended over the vehement protest of his chief, vacationing Ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd), who is expected soon to resign, Sir Nevile Meyrick Henderson, British Ambassador, and Andr...
...makes things easy for the outside servants. On "Sarobia's" grounds are 13 houses and cabins, one a guesthouse named "Runcible" after a Logan cat. and another a onetime roadhouse near the highway. In these live indigent poets, artists, thinkers, mostly obscure folk. Last week, on his annual visit to the Logans, arrived a more famed guest, Hindu Jiddu Krishnamurti, who had just returned from Europe...
...week began with the Dutchess County Fair, at Rhinebeck, N. Y., a few miles up the Albany Post Road from Hyde Park. One visit to the Fair, for any Dutchess County squire, amounts almost to an obligation. Last week, the President made two. First afternoon, his car drew up under a canopy where the prize-winning cow and calf were brought over to be patted and he held the day's informal press conference. Next day Ambassador Robert W. Bingham, just back from London, lunched at Hyde Park. In the afternoon the President went to the Fair again, awarded...
...previous visit to Moscow last February, I dined one night with members of the Foreign Office and a few journalists. . . . Paul Lapinsky, at that time foreign editor of the newspaper Izvestia, the official organ of the Central Executive...