Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...misinterpret, may I call [the following] to your attention in this week's TIME: You refer to the "President's curt speech" heard by a "tobacco-chewing crowd," etc. The crowd was NOT tobacco-chewing, and it applauded the speech. The honor of the President's visit was thoroughly appreciated. Many of the 50,000 crowd had motored miles that morning to be present and to see the President. Brenau College students and faculty in the foreground can attest what I say. President Pearce of Brenau College praised the speech without stint in his chapel address...
Inside the Senate, 75-year-old Joseph Caillaux, whom Leftists call "the Cabinet Killer," continued to play his dominant role, icily bemonocled. The Senate, while the crowd howled outside, voted credits for the entertainment of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on their State visit to France this coming June. As the dinner hour approached the mob scurried home. Inflammatory posters screeched from Paris hoardings meanwhile, appeals to the Socialists, the Communists and the Anarchists to "Rise against this handful of stony-hearted old men, ensconced in their Senatorial Bastille...
...significant change was the replacement of mildly pro-Nazi National Liberal Leader George Tatarescu as Foreign Minister by ardently pro-Nazi Nicolas Petrescu-Comnen. King Carol has called off his spring State visit to Britain's King George, is now planning one to Adolf Hitler in Berlin, where M. Petrescu-Comnen was Rumanian Minister from 1932 until his appointment as Under-Secretary of State a few weeks...
...composer, librettist, playwright, autobiographer. Last week he took on a new role. A few weeks earlier his latest musical show, Operette, had opened in London, got distinctly chilly reviews-which jangled Coward's nerves. Sympathetic as a family physician, the British Admiralty promptly sent him on an official visit to the Mediterranean fleet, bade him find out what British sailors like in the way of movies...
...Union Army and 33-year-old Confederate Captain Thomas Keys, who fought on opposite sides around Atlanta. Campbell's diary is brief, unilluminating, but Keys, who had been a newspaper editor, wrote vividly of the battles of Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Nashville, of a journey through Union country to visit his wife & children at Helena...