Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brought him to Washington more often, and lengthened each visit. In 1941 Rosenman was called to reorganize the entire defense agency setup. Result: the Supply, Priorities & Allocations Board. Later, Commuter Rosenman helped organize the War Manpower Commission. Next, the Governments' snarled public-relations agencies needed attention. So Rosenman, between running errands and writing speeches for the President, and advising him on the selection of candidates tor Government jobs, planned the Office of War Information...
Apologia for the Left. For laying the specter of Socialism, Attlee shrewdly chose the one spectacular event of his visit: his speech to Congress. He seized the chance to give the U.S. a somewhat oversimple, understandable account of the Labor Party and its purposes...
...like a visit from a seldom-seen and well-loved cousin. On his way from the conference at Washington, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Great Britain's Socialist Prime Minister Clement Attlee stopped by to pay his respects to Canadians. As hosts will, Canadians fed him well, showed him a good time...
...book is much more than a catalogue of sights & sounds, or a stylistic appreciation of scenery. There are also a dirgelike visit to Changsha battle field; illuminating talks with Dr. Sun Fo, "Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, WPBoss Wong Wen-hao; ferryboat rides across the dragonlike Yangtze; discourses on the world and its state; days with abbots, poets, children and cymbal-beating actors. Above all, Payne admires and respects China's students and professors, the guardians of the past and the planners of the future, whose great hegira from the coast to the interior never fails to fill...
Prime Minister Clement Attlee's arrival in Washington to visit the President did not stir the world, nor the U.S., nor even the capital press corps...