Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said here that I seemed to be quite a curiosity to the Indians, and was, apparently, the first white woman they had ever seen.) . . . Here our packers deserted us, making it necessary to dispose of a good part of our equipment. Two Indian boys on their way to visit the chief medicine man of their tribe in Colombia agreed to guide us. We followed a well-worn Indian trail over the range of mountains between Panama and Colombia, and after many hardships we reached the Indian village of Arquia in Colombia...
...stand on a hill in Eritrea straining his one good eye through a one-barreled glass, peering across at the Eyeties' vulnerabilities; next day he would stir up his field staff in Sidi Barrãni; then he would calm the fears of Egyptian politicians; fly to Crete; visit headquarters in Palestine; spend a day at his desk in Cairo. Now he was not as sharp as he had been: his Syrian effort was going lazily, his action at Hellfire Pass last month went poorly...
Over the radio a Japanese spokesman explained Wang's visit...
...should visit Camp Joseph T. Robinson, Ark. but rotund Elsa Maxwell, professional party-liner for café society. Last week, interviewed by the New York World-Telegram, Miss Maxwell had some unexpectedly shrewd observations to make about the U.S. Army's morale. Said...
...hotheads in the Non-Aggression Pact by signing a new $14,000,000 barter agreement (last year's Russo-Japanese trade was less than $2,000,000). Also Puppet Ruler Wang Chingwei of Nanking left for Tokyo to be received in splendor by Emperor Hirohito. His visit was said to be connected with the attempted formation of a "peace bloc" including Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and Nanking which would assure them all of co-prosperity, end Russia's assistance to Free China. It was hoped that the last move would throw that land into civil war between Chiang...