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Word: visitations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Master Untiedt's visit was elaborately handled by the Press as a story of human interest in the White House. The boy was reported as entertaining the President with a mouth organ, "winning the heart" of five-year-old Granddaughter Peggy Hoover, further peeping in on a Cabinet meeting and the morning medicine ball exercises, eating "an informal, pleasant family luncheon with the President regaling the table with amusing stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Visitors | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...visit lengthened from 36 hr. to four days, White House reporters prepared for an interview with Master Untiedt. Surprised and irritated were they when the boy hero refused to be interviewed, said that he had promised his Washington observations to enterprising Fred G. Bonfils' Denver Post. Said the Post's managing editor: "Naturally we are very proud of the boy keeping his promise. It was characteristic of this fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Visitors | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...Diamond indictment and subsequent assault released a torrent of indignation in Greene County, whose citizenry foresaw that its nest of city rats was about to ruin the summer tourist trade. Thereupon, Governor Roosevelt, preparing to sail for Paris to visit his aged mother who is ill with influenza, appointed Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. to supersede the local prosecutor, clean up the Catskill's gangster colony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New York v. Diamond | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...previously warned that his profound cerebrations will unseat his reason, that he has ''a little devil in his mind." A prime symptom: His astounding fondness for a caged orangutan which he subjects to a minute character-analysis. After his pet orangutan dies and Mr. Bulgakov pays a visit to the novelist's wife, up pops the devil. The scientist feigns madness (a circumstance which will extenuate his crime), kills the lady's husband with a very heavy ash tray. Then follows Mr. Bulgakov's big scene, with a stage entirely to himself. It turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: May 11, 1931 | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

Program for The Visit to Washington of His Majesty the King of Siam and Her Majesty the Queen April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Court Circular | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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