Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Museum is trying to catch up with the recording of its over one million objects. For this, as well as all its other special functions--publications, expeditions, research, much new equipment--the Museum has an annual budget of $85,000. As a money-saving device, it asks professors who visit the Museum to study parts of its collection in order to check the catalogue to see that it is complete and up-to-date on their special areas of interest...
...Farm. Next morning he had a long soak in a hot tub, did not leave his suite until noon. Then Eisenhower and Churchill drove out through the blazing red azaleas of the National Arboretum to Walter Reed Army Hospital to visit former Army Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, gravely ill following two strokes, and former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. When Eisenhower pointed to an Eisenhower portrait of Churchill hanging on the wall of the presidential suite (occupied by Dulles), Old Painter Churchill said, "Very good, very good." Dulles asked Churchill to autograph a one-volume abridged copy...
...Midnight Knock. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court, by the tightest of decisions (5-4), upheld the fine and the 1801 Baltimore ordinance, and ruled that the health inspector's visit did not violate the Fourth Amendment's guaranteed "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures...
...against the householder in a criminal case without due process of law. "Giving the fullest scope to this constitutional right to privacy, its protection cannot be here invoked . . . No evidence for criminal prosecution is sought to be seized . . . Here was no midnight knock on the door but an orderly visit in the middle of the afternoon . . . Time and experience have forcefully taught that the power to inspect dwelling places . . . is of indispensable importance to the maintenance of community health, a power that would be greatly hobbled by the blanket requirement of the safeguards for a search of evidence of criminal...
...mystical popularity, may call a snap general election. They decided to hit the road themselves. Inonu's spirited welcome and the public resentment against his rough treatment suggest that the country may be fairly evenly divided at the moment. At week's end Inonu canceled a scheduled visit to Berlin. Said he: "I do not believe it would be wise to leave Turkey at a time when the country is in such an excited state...