Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have not had Wade Hampton's equal in the executive mansion recently, though we did have Richard I. Manning for our World War governor. Just visit the campus of the University in Columbia, the College of Charleston or the Citadel, if you want to see the present aristocracy of a great little State...
Proceeding to Indianapolis, the President spent two hours motoring over the city to look at WPA projects and visit the State Fair, three hours at the Indianapolis Athletic Club for luncheon and a Drought conference with the Governors and Senators of Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan. The fact that he did not get the GOPresidential nomination enabled Michigan's Senator Vandenberg to be less circumspect than Alf Landon had been at Des Moines. Before entering the conference, Senator Vandenberg remarked: "It's been dry in Michigan, but we only knew casually it was a Drought until this trip...
...newshawk named Rene Belbenoit, who in 1921 broke into the Chateau de Bel AH near Paris and stole the necklace of the Countess of Entre-meuse. Sentenced to Guiana for eight years at hard labor, he escaped and was recaptured four times. He met Novelist Blair Niles on her visit to the colony. She was able to glean from his story enough material for two books which made them both famed...
...public with respect to the Landon-Hearst alliance will not be denied. Mr. Hearst is on such intimate terms with the candidate that he can even venture ... to express his opinion as to what he believes the Governor feels. ... Up to the time that Mr. Hearst made his historic visit to Topeka, Governor Landon was an ardent New Dealer. Apparently a Hearst silencer had been applied to him. How otherwise explain the Republican candidate's elocutionary efforts? He may 'condemn' in conventional fashion, he may 'view with alarm,' but this seems to be the limit...
...also a Socialist, had greeted with every mark of courteous amity the first German Cabinet minister to go to Paris since the Nazis came to power in Berlin. As for Dr. Schacht, he seemed to have permission from Realmleader Hitler to forget for the duration of his Paris visit everything Germans have been told to remember about Jews and Marxists. After lunching at the Bank of France with the Premier, Finance Minis ter Vincent Auriol and other French Cabinet members, Dr. Schacht purred: "Both in general and in technical discussions, I got the impression of having to deal with intelligent...