Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Women share a part in the numerous programs of American Defense, and committee headed by Mrs. Arthur M. Schlesinger is cooperating now with the Houses and Phillips Brooks House in attempting to put through a program which will allow draftees to visit students over the weekend...
House members were still fresh from their month's visit home, whence many a mugwump had crossed over into the interventionist camp, and even fresher from the heaviest victory for any Roosevelt World War II policy move, the crashing 328-67 vote last week for passage of the $5,985,000,000 new Lend-Lease funds. If the House whooped through the Armed-Ships bill, the Senate could not fail to be impressed. This was the strategists...
P.D.Q. Aid really began to roll to Russia. American correspondents were permitted to visit a port in northern Britain whence tanks, fighter planes, ammunition, medical supplies and clothing were being loaded and shipped to the ally. Five ships had already sailed, three were loading, six more were expected momentarily...
Winston Churchill has remained as unorthodox an Old Harrovian as he was a young one. At his last visit to the school in December 1940, he said: "Herr Hitler, in one of his recent discourses . . . declared that the fight was between those who had been through the Adolf Hitler schools and those who had been at Eton. Hitler had forgotten Harrow, and he had also overlooked the vast majority of the youth of this country who have never had the privilege of attending such schools. . . . When this war is won ... it must be one of our aims to work...
...support sisterhoods trained to visit scattered Catholic families in rural districts and keep them in closer touch with the Church...