Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 1931, Herbert Hoover was just back from his first and last visit as President to the Virgin Islands ("a poorhouse" to him). Same month, eight young Negroes were sentenced to death at Scottsboro. Ala. for raping two white female hoboes in a Southern Ry. freight gondola (TIME, June...
...colleague that, among other things, the leper priest "was not a pure man in his relations with women." This statement, published in Australia, evoked from Presbyterian Robert Louis Stevenson a bitter rebuttal which may well be a deciding factor in the saintly cause of Father Damien. Stevenson had visited Molokai, had talked with Brother Joseph, had found the colony even with its improvements "a pitiful place to visit and a Hell to dwell in." Flaming with indignation, Author Stevenson wrote Dr. Hyde...
...worthwhile to call to attention at this time the visit of the Philadelphia Orchesra under the well-publicized Leopold Stokowski to Boston on April 14. The advance sale is so heavy that those who desire tickets had best write in to Aaron Richmond's office in Boston without delay...
...know, no royal visit ever was less carefully guarded than King Alexander's. You would have said that the guards had been kept as far away as possible and everything which contributed to or surrounded the assassination was of a mechanical natur -arms, automobiles, cameras...
...luncheon in the Pacific Union Club to celebrate his 75th birthday. As conservative as his bank, old Mr. Crocker is a stanch Republican whose years have been filled with civic duties. He headed the committee that welcomed Charles Evans Hughes when that GOPresidential nominee made his ill-fated visit to California in 1916. He was vice president of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, served on the board of regents of the University of California for two decades. In poor health of late, Mr. Crocker has been spending more & more time on his 523-acre estate with its 67-room house...