Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sort of persuasion Franklin Roosevelt used to exert. President Truman seemed resentful. He said the Senate had let him down. He expected that the House would not do the same. He stood pat on his program. He was no longer the "good old Harry" who liked to visit the Hill and chum with his old cronies. He was aggressively Mr. President...
Propaganda, Maybe. Evidently the Son of Heaven was bestirring himself on behalf of his unhappy people. MacArthur had not invited the visit; the Emperor had asked (through his Grand Chamberlain) to see MacArthur. Previously Hirohito had granted press interviews to Frank Kluckhohn of the New York Times and Hugh Baillie of United Press (see PRESS). He asked them some questions, wished them well, and answered their own questions in writing. If he was making propaganda, he did it gracefully. He said that Tojo had abused the imperial war rescript in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor; he hoped that Japan...
...King announced that he was going to Washington for brief talks with President Truman over the weekend; then he would sail from New York for London. Because he would take time to visit Canadian troops and battlefields, because he would "see for myself something of the changed world in which Canada must make her way," he would probably be gone a month and a half...
...with Marcella Powers. She acted with him in a number of plays (see cut). Miss Powers decorated Lewis' Manhattan apartment (where he wrote much of his new novel, Cass Timberlane). When he bought (for a reputed $26,000) his Tudor mansion in Duluth, Miss Powers went out to visit him and decorate that. Says Lewis, when asked if he is planning to marry again: "No signs of it." Say his friends: "We just don't know...
Protector & Protected. No Greek would deny that Damaskinos holds his Regency today, and keeps his Government in power, only with the support of the British Army in Greece. On their fateful visit to Athens last December, at the height of the tragic battle between Greek and Greek, and Greek and Briton, Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden chose Damaskinos as the one Greek who might save his countrymen from themselves-and who might save Greece for Britain and the western world...