Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren in Seattle, pick up first-hand impressions on how the Northwest felt about things in general and the New Deal in particular. But even if Franklin Roosevelt did not love campaigning so much that he does it from sheer force of habit, his visit to his grandchildren would inevitably have been the week's major U. S. political news...
Cheyenne in 25 hr. 25 min. hard driving. En route in Omaha, when an interviewer asked Senator O'Mahoney if he were hurrying home to lay the groundwork for the President's visit, Mrs. O'Mahoney answered for her husband: "Perhaps 'allay' is the better word." They arrived a day ahead of the Presidential special. Before the train reached Cheyenne, it stopped long enough for Cheyenne papers to be put aboard. Front-page headlines told about a testimonial banquet which Cheyenne Democrats had "only yesterday" decided to give Senator O'Mahoney. When the train...
Perhaps unfortunately for the world outlook of the readers of the Star, Editor Morgan's visit to the U. S. coincided in time and place with the 19th annual convention of the American Legion. Unfortunately for the Legion its goings-on in Manhattan promised to spoil the entertainment at many a future convention, for having tied up traffic at Times Square by lying down and shooting craps upon Broadway's car tracks, what real amusement can Legionnaires hope for from tying up the traffic of less frequented crossroads...
...Berlin acrid yellowish smoke billowed last week around the Hindenburg Palace in which visiting Benito Mussolini was to be a guest. Bombing planes chased by pursuit ships streaked across the sky, anti-aircraft guns chattered, the entire Wilhelmstrasse quarter of government buildings disappeared in the thick smoke of fake bombs, and subject to severe fines was any citizen of Berlin who did not dive like a rabbit into the bombproof shelter nearest him. Black streamers were plastered about liberally to indicate "DESTRUCTION" and afternoon papers spoke of the bombing fleet as "RED." Thus last week German minds were prepared...
...Matter of the Heart!" Thus Hitler and Mussolini were enemies three short years ago. Since then the British attitude on Ethiopia, the French attitude on Spain, have thrown them into each other's arms. "My visit to Germany," read the Italian Dictator's official advance announcement last week, "is wholly a matter of the heart. . . . The two peoples will clasp hands . . . and will march side by side in the future, for this future belongs to us. . . . My visit is a demonstration for a common policy of STRONG PEACE...