Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...race appeared to be between Mr. Wardell, who managed Governor Roosevelt's unsuccessful preconvention campaign in California and Mr. McAdoo who swung the votes at the Chicago convention that nominated Roosevelt. As each candidate claims to be the true apostle of Roosevelt Democracy, the New York Governor could hardly visit the State now and remain neutral...
...Chief Conspirator in an Italian opera. His name, according to the passenger list, was PROFESSOR CLARENCE SKINNER. Behind the bush of Professor Skinner newshawks instantly recognized the features of Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. Governor Norman promptly boarded the Bar Harbor express to visit "Larchsea," summer home of his friend Mrs. John Markoe of Philadelphia. Governor Norman's visits to the U. S. are always secretive. They almost always preface international financial developments of the greatest importance. Fortnight after his last visit, year ago, Britain went off the gold standard. Leaving Governor Norman...
...locomotive-engineer named Augustus Phillips of Falls City, Neb. returned to the U. S. from a visit to his native Aitos, Bulgaria. After the villagers had serenaded him and his wife with a mandolin & harmonica band for 16 nights, he related, word of his presence reached the ears of Tsar Boris at the summer palace at Varna nearby. Tsar Boris, whose best fun is driving a locomotive, sent a carriage and plumed horses for Engineer Phillips. Recounted Mr. Phillips: "[at the palace] he motioned me to a sofa and we sat down. . . . He told me that one problem that...
...formerly Jane Campbell of New York. The Princess Jane has a palace in Rome and one in Venice. She used to give tremendous dinners, balls and routs that were faithfully reported by the smartcharts of four countries. Knowing visitors to Italy placed an introduction to Princess Jane beside a visit to the Catacombs and a gondola ride by moonlight as items not to be missed...
...regards honor as an asset more valuable than stocks or bonds and his idealistic viewpoint only indirectly damages his financial standing. Devoted to the interests of his depositors, he breaks an engagement with his wife (Kay Johnson) to attend to a business deal in Philadelphia. This enables her to visit the apartment of his head cashier (Gavin Gordon), who has been dipping his fingers in the till...