Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...counsel at the World Court. The map to which he referred appeared in the background of a picture of U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, French Premier Paul Reynaud and an interpreter -taken in M. Reynaud's office on the occasion of Mr. Welles's visit to Paris, subsequently published on the cover of UIllustration...
...studying the development of modern American classical music, the extent of the influence of the Negro folk song can easily be underestimated. The beginning of this influence was the enthusiasm of Dvorak after his visit to America in the late 1890's, and the effect that it had on the young American composers of the time. Following his lead, a small school of devotees grew up, but produced, unfortunately, no work of outstanding merit. In 1924, the French composer, Darius Milhaud, wrote: ". . . Negro music, with its deep human content which is about to create as complete a revolution...
...visit to the Navajo Reservation in 1933 I saw the school maintained by the Presbyterian Church at Ganado and I am quite sure that written Navajo was in use at that time. However, as I remember it, English was the language of the classroom...
Miss George is that hostess and she has plenty of high spirits, but the party is pretty much of a flop. Miss George plays a let-her-rip U. S. showgirl who had been an English officer's war bride. Invited for a visit by her grown daughter (whom she hasn't seen since infancy and who has been brought up a lady), she goes, intending to play the lady too. Daughter turns out to be a terrible prig, and since Mama can't even dress like a lady, let alone act like one, there...
Head of the bustling Central Harlem Health Center is young Dr. John Baldwin West. No chair-warmer, Dr. West often marches into theatres, churches, basements, schools, apartment houses, exhorting Harlemites to visit the Health Center for X-rays, Wassermann tests, infant care. In the last three years, Dr. West and his staff of 200 have X-rayed 250,000 people, have lowered the infant mortality rate from 100 per 1,000 to 52, the maternal mortality rate from 18 to five. Over 500 patients a day visit a venereal disease clinic in the Center. But for all his efforts...