Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, July 12, Una Jeffers of Carmel-by-the-Sea reported a visit to the old Lime Kiln near Bixley Creek on the new Carmel-San Simeon Highway. She visited it a few months ago and saw the ruins, but I, as a little girl, spent many a happy summer vacation there when the busy trams carried the lime, down to the cliffs 25 years ago. My father, Mr. Frank D. Shields, and four other business men of San Francisco controlled the production at that time and as children my brother and I visited the Kiln for our summer holidays...
...Belgium it is customary for the King to say a good deal more than this on issues of Government policy (TIME, Oct. 26) but in England many authorities consider it "unconstitutional" and last week, when new King George VI & Queen Elizabeth undertook to visit South Wales, it was something of a test case whether they would express themselves about what they saw. As a matter of fact nothing has been "done for Wales." The Government do not claim to have brought about the pick-up in Welsh coal exports which has reduced the registered unemployed figure to 33,000, increased...
...kept this up even after King Leopold roundly told them: "You saved Belgium once before, and now you must save Belgium again!" (by keeping quiet). Although Minister of Justice Victor de Laveleye, administrator of the Amnesty Law, is himself a decorated War veteran, he recently emerged from an official visit to the Mons Law Courts nursing a bleeding jaw. Later, during a commemorative service at the Brussels Law Courts, the arrival of the Minister of Justice caused all War veteran lawyers to arise and stalk from the building. Veterans associations now ban from their meetings every Deputy and Senator...
...lecturer, wife of Franklin Pierce Adams, onetime counselor of the Pan-American Union; in Nice, France. Mrs. Adams headed expeditions in Haiti, Africa, Siberia and Sumatra, made a threeyear, 40,000-mi. journey through South America starting in 1903. In 1916, she was the first woman War correspondent to visit the front-line trenches. In 1925, she organized the International Society of Woman Geographers...
When dynamic, new Premier Negrin of the Spanish Leftists made his flying visit to Paris fortnight ago, passionately imploring aid (TIME, July 12). the canny French General Staff reputedly urged that he test and prove the present fitness of Spain's Leftist militia by ordering a full-scale offensive. Last week Premier Negrin, at Valencia, was at the controls of a Leftist offensive which sent 30,000 militia rushing out of Madrid in heroic, bloody efforts to dislodge decisively the besieging Rightists...