Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, the day before Mr. Carlisle's visit, President Roosevelt talked with a powerman whose case is a comprehensive summation of the industry's present grave problems-Wendell Lewis Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., a billion-dollar holding company with a huge chunk of its operating properties located smack in the centre of invading TVA's sphere. Though he has become the industry's spokesman in dealing with the New Deal, Mr. Willkie is by no means a typical powerman. A blunt homespun Hoosier who got into power by way of the law-after...
That the President still thinks of businessmen as his opponents in a highly exciting political game was clear last week at the White House press conference following Mr. Willkie's visit. He said he had pressed Mr. Willkie for reasons why companies outside the area of direct TVA competition had difficulty in raising money, and that the only answer he could get was: "The general feeling." As every businessman knows, "the general feeling" is more important in selling any security or making any financial commitment than the details of a registration statement. And the general feeling of businessmen last...
...British Government, not wishing Ambassador Davis to sail home to Washington sore, invited him pressingly to visit London...
...Were refused details of what took place at the meeting of Adolf Hitler and Viscount Halifax (TIME, Nov. 29 et ante), but were told by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that "the visit has been valuable in furthering the desire, which I believe to be generally felt in both countries, for the establishment of a closer mutual understanding." This sounded so pro-German that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who is not pro-German, succeeded in getting French Premier Camille Chautemps and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos invited to London, where they arrived this week to try to discover where His Majesty...
...time there will be no speeches, no receptions, no disquieting crowds of idolaters. That birthday belonged to Finland. This belongs to Sibelius. Full of years and honors, he will pass the day at his villa, "Ainola," in the forests some 30 mi. north of the capital, not expecting a visit from even one of his five married daughters. Yet for him his 72nd birthday will be more important than his work. A good part of his day will be spent "working in undisturbed peace." His Eighth Symphony, for which the world has been waiting twelve years, is drawing towards completion...