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Word: visitations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Have My Word." It was September 1944. The campaign train rolled up through the Midwest, returned to Albany. A few days later, Tom Dewey received another visit from Colonel Clarke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Secret Kept | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...hours, opposing counsel argued the constitutionality of eviction injunctions based on private agreements. When he had heard both sides out and considered the overtones, tall, well-groomed Judge Clarke decided to visit the disputed ground-popularly known as "Sugar Hill." As he rose to leave, spectators noticed a portrait of Lincoln hanging behind the bench. Breathed one burly Negro: "I hope that judge has eyes in the back of his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Victory on Sugar Hill | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...with silver dollars. Potter Palmer was almost as proud of his House as he was of his wife-of whom he once said fondly: "There she stands, with $200,000 [in jewels] on her." Only once did his hotel fail him. The Infanta Eulalia of Spain cut short a visit with Mrs. Palmer, then the queen of Chicago society, because she was "the wife of an innkeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Old Wine, New Bottle | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...visit to Germany taught him that unions become extinct under dictatorships. His stint as a tool & die maker in Russia's famed Gorky automobile plant taught him that unions thrive only where there is free speech. He returned to Detroit just as the U.A.W. was organizing, in 1935. Naturally, he joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Finish Fight? | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...voice heated with emotion, prim Mr. King reminded the House that Canada had resumed rationing in September to make "the fullest possible contribution to the needs of the United Kingdom and the continent of Europe." He had noted during his recent fact-finding visit to Britain that the outlook was now "even more urgent and more desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: A Hell of a Christmas Present | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

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