Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First, he had a three-day visit from Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, rumored to be the President's choice for chairman of the conference. What the President and the Prime Minister discussed was not disclosed in detail, but it was certain that the conference got more discussion than Neighbor King's home political affairs, about which Franklin Roosevelt had a few kind words to say (see CANADA...
Said the Duchess: "With the world as it is, one could not make a decision now. But we shall definitely visit France. Our possessions are scattered all over France.* We must see what is left...
When reporters asked about Prime Minister King's visit, the President answered offhandedly: "Oh, he comes down here all the time." Specifically, he said they had thoroughly discussed the coming San Francisco Conference. He read a short statement revealing that the two leaders agreed on the need for reducing international trade barriers...
...Several plotters were close friends of Batista, now touring the U.S. in something very like exile. Many were his associates. Pedraza himself was dismissed from office by Batista for plotting against him in 1941. But Cubans wondered whether the two men may have met during Batista's recent visit to Mexico...
Count Alfred Marie de Fouguereaux de Marigny, acquitted of the 1943 Bahamas murder of his millionaire father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, turned up in Halifax as a third officer on a Canadian merchant ship, thought he might make the merchant marine his career. On his way to visit his wife, Nancy Oakes de Marigny, 20, he told reporters he wanted "privacy": "Until all this publicity I got when I came into Halifax, the crew respected me. Now . . . they want my autograph." The Count, who doesn't like to be called Count, asked to be "just plain mister...