Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamberlain kept mum. The first bigwig Prime Minister Eamon de Valera heard from-two days after making his demands-was President Roosevelt. Mr. John Cudahy, the U. S. Minister to Eire, merely dropped around in Dublin to present an official White House invitation to Prime Minister de Valera to visit the U. S. next spring. Since King George and Queen Elizabeth have not yet made clear whether they will extend their visit to Canada next spring to include the U. S., the White House invitation at Dublin created a stir among courtiers at Buckingham Palace...
...From Lincoln School in Manhattan, perhaps the top-ranking Progressive school in the U. S., which is subsidized by Rockefeller money and had two Rockefeller boys as students, groups of pupils last year went to visit coal mines, steel mills, farms, TVA. This experiment was financed by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Last week, after careful tests, Ohio State's Dr. Louis Rath, an evaluator for P. E. A., reported that in a ten-day trip and six weeks of related classroom study, high-school juniors gained 15% in consistency of their thinking, became markedly more liberal, matured...
...British recently have sent confidential emissaries to King Carol and next month His Majesty will make a State visit to King George. Last week Rumania and Yugoslavia were exerting pressure on their neighbor Hungary to keep her from grabbing such a great slice of Slovakia & Ruthenia as would pinch off the whole eastern end of Czechoslovakia. This would give Hungary and Poland a common frontier, would mean that Rumania and Czechoslovakia would no longer be adjoining States...
This afternoon the Ambassador will inspect the special exhibits in Widener Library which have been set up in his honor. The collection includes the most important French books belonging to the University along with others lent by collectors, the earliest of which was made in 1380. He will also visit Fogg Museum where there is a display of French paintings and drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries...
Compactly put together, Oscar Wilde tells simply of its hero's downfall. It passes up Wilde's early days: his blue-china period at Oxford, his lily-and-sunflower posturings caricatured by Gilbert & Sullivan in Patience, his visit to the U.S. when he told the customs officers that he had nothing to declare but his genius. It introduces him at the height of his fame, spouting epigrams and penning paradoxes, when his intimacy with young Lord Alfred Douglas has aroused the furious opposition of Douglas' father, the Marquis of Queensberry. Soon Queensberry has goaded Wilde into suing...