Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast as he could, Diplomat Grandi talked disarmament and assured the world of Italy's peaceful intentions. With the French, rulers of the Geneva roost, he engaged in a never-ending fight for prestige. At the height of his career as Foreign Minister he paid a goodwill visit to the U. S. and chatted amiably with President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson. Next year he was demoted...
Last week Edda Ciano's husband, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, paid an official visit to Generalissimo Francisco Franco in Spain. The Countess for once did not go along. The Countess' father, Il Duce, was summering in central Italy at Rocca delle Caminate, still keeping the vow of silence he publicly took at Cuneo, in northern Italy, last May. Edda herself was at the island of Capri, across from the Bay of Naples, supervising the building of a villa at her (and the late Emperor Tiberius') favorite recreation spot...
...train at Bled, Yugoslavia, last week hopped Premier George Kiosseivanoff, of Bulgaria. This Balkan statesman had just visited Berlin, where he had passed through flag-lined streets, been put up at sumptuous Bellevue Castle and been feasted by Fuhrer Hitler at the Chancellery. At Bled, a Yugoslav summer resort, M. Kiosseivanoff had a reception less toney, but just as friendly. High point of his stop-over was a visit to Castle Brno, where he chatted long and amiably with the polished, cultured Prince Paul, First Regent of Yugoslavia...
...week's end Prince Paul did something more to his liking when he entrained for London to be the guest at Buckingham Palace of King George and Queen Elizabeth. The Prince and his wife, Princess Olga, insisted their visit was a private affair to see the Duke & Duchess of Kent before their departure in November for Australia, where the Duke will assume his duties of Governor General. Princess Marina, the Duchess, is Princess Olga's sister...
...period, the late Lord Duveen. A merchant who cultivated his mind while he was accumulating his chain of 240 stores, Mr. Kress did not need much help. It was about 25 years ago that he first started making large-scale purchases. Every summer he took time off to visit European spas and ferret the art centres. Always he came back with some important token, which he personally hung on the already crowded walls of his rambling duplex penthouse on upper Fifth Avenue. Unmarried, he called his pictures his "children...