Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then had been afraid he could not survive the effort of being carried back to bed. He was propped up in the chair when Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III and Queen Elena went into the room in the Grand Hotel in Rome to pay him a last visit...
...native anti-Communists in the U. S. Among them: Willi Schlamm, leader at 16 of the Austrian Communist Party, one of the first to break with Stalin; Eugene Lyons (Assignment in Utopia); the late General Walter Krivitsky. For Editor Riesel these characteristic contributors afforded a probable reason for the visit: Communist footpads were looking for the address of Richard Julius Herman Krebs, alias Jan Valtin, ex-Communist author of Out of the Night, currently best-selling Baedeker of the Stalinist underworld. The raiders found no addresses...
...girls from Scarsdale had entered Smith that September. That seemed a good many Smith freshmen from one small town. Mr. Price leafed through his parish list, found that 260 boys & girls were away at school and college, most of them in New England. Why not pay them a visit? Lots of parsons visit lots of schools every year, reasoned Rector Price, but few youngsters get personal calls from their home-town parson. When his young people were home at Christmas, he asked if they would like such a pastoral visit. They all thought it would be fine. So last week...
According to the cablegram, the real purpose of the president's visit is to "enhance the effectiveness of his propaganda when he returns." It further states that his trip means to Harvard students "the turning over of many of our educational facilities to the 'defense' program and the propagandist distortion in our courses...
...cablegram advises the English students not to accept Conant's visit as a scientific mission. Rather it is a "visitation of American imperialism," and means a stronger government for England and the emphasis of war aims over the needs of the people. Claiming that Conant's visit is not in the interests of science because he has not worked in science for six years, the cable says that his trip means the sinking of American educational institutions into the warlike aims of the government...