Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief recreation, as usual, was to drive his hand-control open Ford (license plates, GEORGIA FDR) over the bumpy roads in a smoke screen of dust. His evenings he spent reading (presumably detective stories). Quickly he shushed reporters looking for significance in Prime Minister Mackenzie King's visit-said the talks involved no policy matters. By the weekend the nervous shakiness was out of his hands, and his relaxed fingers no longer tapped on the chair arm. He rose at 10 a.m., worked little, got his rest-but in Europe was the war; in Washington were the cables...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt held a portentous conference with Italian Ambassador Don Ascantlo Colonna today while in far off Tokyo U. S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew abruptly cancelled plans for a visit to Washington...
Hedy Lamarr's first husband, Austrian Munitions Tycoon Fritz Mandl, now an exile, concluded a visit to the U. S. by buying two 10,000-ton cargo ships and sailed for Rio de Janeiro with his wife No. 2, Austrian Actress Herta Schneider. His use for the ship's: to carry cargoes to Europe from Argentina, where he is starting out afresh as a tycoon...
Peculiarly coinciding with the visit of the University's investigator, Edward J. Walsh, commissary manager of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a marked increase in the efficiency of the service in the House Dining Halls and in the Union has been noted in the past few days...
...Tiger down at Princeton. This should constitute Harvard's toughest fight against Ivy league opposition. After the Orange and Black are scheduled Cornell, M. I. T., Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale in that order. Divinity Field's rejuvenated grandstand may seat a record crowd when the Bulldog pays his visit...