Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...density and concentration, to break bread, but he politely declined them all. U. S. District Attorney J. Howard McGrath from Providence was his guest two evenings at the Dunes. Otherwise he kept alone. By week's end, when he departed in his big official Packard for a Michigan visit, he was fairly well rested. His nose was red, his freckles refulgent. He felt he had conscientiously obeyed the orders of his Chief, who had firmly told him: "Frank, I want you to get out of town [Washington]. . . ." But he could not relax entirely...
Thomas Edmund Dewey, leading candidate for the G. O. Presidential nomination next year, last week canceled plans to visit his mother in their hometown of Owosso, Mich, and to attend the Shiawassee County Fair. "Certain matters" postponed this trip, which was to have begun his attempted march to the White House. As District Attorney of New York County, young Mr. Dewey was hot on the trail of quarry which, if he caught it, would plaster the newspapers once more with heroic Dewey headlines. Last week Mr. Dewey found the trail uncomfortably crowded. Trotting along at his side were...
...crop of rumors: 1) that a settlement of the Danzig problem was in the air; 2) that Danzig might be part of a general European settlement. Count Ciano went back to Rome. The Premier of Yugoslavia returned to Belgrade. The Regent of Hungary made an unexpected "private" visit to Berlin. Poland's line remained-in Marshal Smigly-Rydz's artful words-peace could not mean "take" for nations, "give" for others. And all over Europe the 8,000,000 men under arms lined up like marksmen preparing to shoot at a ghost, training their guns against radio waves...
...Hollywood, fat Miss Maxwell stayed at the luxurious Beverly Hills house of thin Constance Bennett, was whisked from one bigwig's home to another in a green convertible automobile with white leather upholstery which had first been used for the California visit of the Crown Prince and Princess of Denmark. Studio clippers excised a whole scene which she wrote, climaxed by a Maxwell song entitled Whistle a Little. Old Melody, to which two trained dogs did a dance. To augment her picture work, she made a string of lecture dates. Partygiver Maxwell gave no parties in Hollywood for other...
Last week Courier Wagner herded his dusky charges into Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel. Few days later His Highness paid President Roosevelt a visit, his companions went rubbernecking about the Capital. But nobody checked in or out without notifying Courier Wagner. Between times he lolled in his suite, happily bibbing a double martini cradled in shaved...