Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore, without attempting to appear too smug, may I suggest that you trail your reporters once in a while to see that they actually visit the places they so vividly describe...
Washington bigwigs who visit Annapolis under the new superintendent's regime will be welcomed by an old friend. For Wilson Brown distinguished himself from 1926 to 1929 as naval aide to Calvin Coolidge and commanding officer of the Presidential yacht Mayflower, again from 1934 to 1936 as naval aide to Franklin Roosevelt. His career began in 1902 when he graduated from Annapolis as the youngest member of his class. He went back to teach at the Academy in 1907, commanded the U. S. S. Parker during the World War, later headed the U.. S. submarine base...
Meanwhile, as Latvia's looming Munters left Geneva for Riga jauntily wearing credit for having stepped ably into the empty Dutch breeches, Europeans were intrigued by details of the little-known visit last spring of Mr. & Mrs. Munters to Dictator Joseph Stalin (TIME, June 28). In his boyhood Latvia's still young Foreign Minister studied at the Vladimir Military Academy in Petrograd to become an officer in Tsar Nicholas' Imperial Army, was turned out of school by the Revolution. In Moscow, vivacious Mrs. Munters, a typically irrepressible Russian of pre-Revolution type, promptly taxed Stalin...
Exclaimed Le Populaire, newsorgan of the French Socialist Party and Vice Premier Leon Blum who last year became the first Socialist Premier of France and is soon to visit the White House: "It is the conscience of the civilized world which has answered bestial ferocity." Without designating any particular country, his words are sufficiently explicit so that in them may be recognized condemnation of the invasion of Manchuria, the assassination of [Chancellor] Dollfuss [of Austria], the Italian aggression in Ethiopia, the foreign intervention in Spain, Japanese aggression in China, the bombardment of open cities and massacre of working populations...
...student who has had the misfortune to go on probation, or who has unsuccessfully violated the parietal rules, or whose term bill for last June remains unpaid, University Hall is not a pleasant place to visit. But, to those in good standing, or with an honest desire to regain good standing, University Hall and the deans therein might be likened to an oasis of solid advice beckoning to the bewildered or negligent who flounder in scholarly quicksand...