Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Midway brought Admiral Chester W. Nimitz the Distinguished Service Medal last week for "exceptionally meritorious service as Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet." The white-haired CINCPAC received his decoration aboard a battleship in a West Coast port, but he almost came to grief during his visit to the U.S. mainland. In an accident while landing at a coast airport, the co-pilot of his plane was killed, two passengers injured slightly. The Admiral was little the worse for wear...
Trend. In Coffeyville, Kans., the Paul Helphinstines set out to visit friends in Ohio. They traveled by homemade motor scooter...
Some of the other features on her busy schedule here are a dinner with Governor Saltonstall in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts at 7:30 o'clock this evening and a reception for her countrymen at the Netherlands Room of the Seaman's Club and visit to the Boston Navy Yard on Tuesday. While at Harvard, she may review the Naval Units...
When 18-year-old King Peter of Yugoslavia arrived in Manhattan for a visit, a force of nearly 450 cops and detectives guarded him. He established himself in a 40th-floor suite of the Waldorf-Astoria Towers, held audiences, dined with the Governor, the Mayor, generals. Then, like almost every visitor, he went to the top of the Empire State Building and looked down; he took a little ride in the subway...
...almost the only chance for competition between Americans and Australians lay in baseball, which has been played in Australia since the Great White Fleet's visit in 1908. Baseball is played in winter in Australia usually by cricket players who desire to keep in form for next summer...