Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illinois's G.O.P. National Committeeman Werner W. Schroeder and Cook County G.O.P. Chairman John T. Dempsey. From early afternoon until midnight they conferred with ambitious Governor Dwight H. Green in the old, rambling Governor's mansion. Roger Faherty was in Springfield, too; but except for a brief visit to the mansion he spent his time fending off reporters at the Leland Hotel. Next day he was eating lunch at the hotel when he got a telephone call. Not stopping to finish his meal, he rushed to the Governor's home. There he was introduced to tall...
...aftermath: next day Jimmy was picked up on a drunk-and-disorderly charge. He posted a $10 bond, which he forfeited. His drunks usually follow each service to a client and Jimmy laments the fact that he almost never gets more than $90 cash out of a visit because of the bonds he forfeits...
When sober, Jimmy is proud of his ability to usher out clients neatly. "I just seem to have a talent for this sort of thing," he says to those who visit his chair on public exhibition outside the State capital at Jackson. "Maybe it's because I'm always polite. The first thing I tell a client to put him at ease is 'Have a seat...
...Yesterday and the day before we were given hot baths and we were told that the German soldiers would come tonight to visit us. Yesterday we swore to ourselves that we shall die together. Yesterday they sent us to a big house with bright rooms and nice beds. The Germans did not know that our last bath is our purification before death. Today everything was taken away from us and we were each given one nightgown. All of us have poison. When the soldiers come, we shall drink it. Today we are together and all day we are saying...
Fulgencio Batista, Cuba's dynamic President, hates fat Francisco Franco of Spain and does not care who knows it. A month ago, after a visit to Washington, President Batista announced that an Allied invasion of Falangist Spain would bring a "total ovation . . . throughout all Latin America" (TIME...