Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Germany's foxy Ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen last week found a sly way of increasing Turkey's worry over its position between Adolf Hitler and the Suez and Near Eastern oil. About to leave Ankara for a visit to Berlin, he delivered to Turkey's President Ismet Inönü a parting gift. It consisted of a learned volume on "grave excavations in Turkey...
Some of Carol's qualifications for the job of Regent were recalled: > On his first visit to New York, in 1920, he bought a bartender's guide. > In London, after George V's funeral in 1936, he went on such a binge that Rumanian attaches cried "Our King is lost!" until he turned up just in time for the boat train. > Of the present Duke of Windsor, he passed the peculiar judgment: "I have great hopes for the reign of Edward VIII. He is a man endowed with rare equilibrium -rare equilibrium!" > After years of Rumanian misrule...
...moved out of Air Associates' plant in Bendix, N.J., left it in the hands of the new management it had forced directors to elect. Last week the Navy turned the Federal Shipbuilding yards at Kearny back to its officers, who had stood by throughout the Navy's visit, giving what the Navy called "damned good advice...
Later Bowditch was on the first Salem ship to visit Manila, where he admired the girls. "You can live with them in their houses," he wrote, "like man and wife. . . . Their dress is chiefly in white with a small skirt which reaches no lower than their knees, so that a small puff of wind would discover their nakedness. . . ." Pucelage was giving way to a certain worldliness...
...Girja, whose appointment as diplomatic representative of India is the first of its kind, and his son, who intends to enter the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will the guests of the Master of Kirkland House during their two-day visit to Harvard University...