Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gouty peers could but snort their sympathy when Lord Strickland solemnly assured the House that on his present visit to London he has been unable to get a word with his chief: the Laborite Secretary of State for the Colonies, Baron Passneld of Passfield Corner...
...Authorities on ecclesiastical affairs have expressed the opinion tonight that Dr. [Cosmo Gordon] Lang's visit to Jerusalem is calculated to give offence to the Vatican. The ecclesiastical and international balance at Jerusalem is delicately poised and easily upset and it is recalled that two years ago Dr. Lang's projected visit to Jerusalem was abandoned, it is said, at the Vatican's protest...
...quiet ever since. Signor Grandi, working quietly with British and French undersecretaries, finally reached the point where he could bring to Rome last week in the role of "honest brokers" British Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson and First Lord of the British Admiralty Albert V. Alexander. After the very briefest visit, after a most cordial audience with Peace-Announcer Mussolini, the Englishmen were able to take to Paris an agreement so satisfactory that within four hours French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand pronounced it acceptable to France...
...straightened out the tangled Russian and Siberian railways for the Allies. He promoted a great "Peace Portal" on the U. S.-Canadian border near Elaine, Wash, to celebrate 100 years of U. S.-Canadian peace. He invited his friend Albert, then Crown Prince of the Belgians, to visit him in 1912. For the occasion he built a vast concrete Flemish castle ("Maryhill") overlooking the Columbia River. But the death of King Leopold II prevented the visit. In 1922 he escorted the late Marshal Joffre on a tour of the U. S. In 1926 Queen Marie of Rumania accepted his invitation...
...complaint frequently heard in the little Italian hill-town that nothing exciting ever happened there. When indefatigable Lawyer Belotti arranged for the visit of an opera company everyone licked his chops, looked forward longingly. When the company arrived the town went wild. Business boomed, stood still or went backward, according to whether you were...