Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock he had walked the 60-foot stretch of marble floor in the Palazzo Venezia that visitors must cross to approach the desk of Benito Mussolini. His hour's talk with Il Duce (who wore civilian clothes to emphasize that it was an unofficial visit) was followed by a dinner given by the U. S. Ambassador to Rome. He had lunched on the second day with the French and British Ambassadors and had tea with the one from Germany. And then the first hazard in Sumner Welles's mission to Europe had been negotiated. Some kind of diplomatic...
...elder statesmen quietly upping the army from 150,000 to 500,000 in preparation for good weather. Hearty and well-publicized was Sumner Welles's luncheon with his old diplomatic crony, Leland Harrison, the Minister to Bern. But unpublicized and mysterious was another U. S. Ambassador's visit. Squarejawed, grey-haired John Cudahy, newly appointed U. S. Minister to Belgium, left his embassy, entered Zürich undetected, got past the reception desk at the hotel without leaving his name, late at night departed as secretly as he had come...
...enter Army canteens and visit soldiers' messes if invited...
Sarah Selleck Joslyn spent years planning a memorial for her husband, finally hit on a combined art gallery and concert hall which could house the beloved organ he had played with player rolls. After the $2,900,000 pink marble Joslyn Memorial was opened in 1931, she used to visit it and put player rolls on the organ herself. This winter, too feeble to venture out, she stayed bedridden in Joslyn Castle...
...half an hour. Then the Ambassador departed, began a lengthy round of ceremonial calls in Rome. First of 24 resident Cardinals on Mr. Taylor's list was Gennaro Cardinal Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte, Dean of the Sacred College. Spry at 88, this Prince of the Church returned the visit promptly, arrived at Mr. Taylor's hotel (the Excelsior) flanked by two grooms, who went up in the elevator with him bearing two big lighted candles...