Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League. He had also helped Stanley Baldwin to decide that Britain's frontier must be on the Rhine. In a brilliant swing around Europe he had kept the wavering Little Entente in France's pocket. His trip up the Danube was a triumphant progress ending in a rousing visit with King Alexander of Jugoslavia who was destined to die with him last week. He had advanced an Eastern Locarno Pact which would throw a "ring of steel" around Germany, and he even got France on trading terms with King Alexander's bitterest enemy Benito Mussolini...
After three days, his spectacles gleaming ominously, King Alexander and his Queen returned to Belgrade. An official communique on the results of the royal visit was issued which carefully avoided any mention of anything beyond purely local issues. Customs guards will hereafter be much politer. Three new passes will be opened through the mountains. And engineers may soon bid for two new railroads, one to connect Sofia with the ports of Southern Jugoslavia...
Students fired with enthusiasm by the nationwide strikes of the past summer will be given the opportunity by the Harvard Chapter of the National Students League to learn more of the inside workings of a strike through a visit to a meeting of the Marine Workers Industrial Union, to be held at their headquarters, 583 Commercial Street, Boston, tomorrow afternoon at 8 o'clock...
...HAPPY, CAREFREE MAN was Bruno Hauptmann in the summer of 1932 after his wife Anna went to Germany to visit her family and his. With other young, gregarious and jolly Germans from uptown Yorkville and The Bronx, Hauptmann found his way to Hunter Island on Long Island Sound. Among his friends were John Braue, now a counterman at the Radio City Doughnut Shop, and Anita Lutzenberg, a dressfitter for Oppenheim, Collins & Co. "Nita," explained Braue, "liked to jump around and go with this man or that on the beach." It was not long before she was jumping around with "Dick...
...vague rumors of the existence of such a place but had not had sufficient time and ambition to go down and visit it until the other day when we had a free morning and Professor Lake failed to show up at English 35a. We were shown all the vital documents of the University since the 1640's carefully locked up in fireproof cases and spent the next two hours reading about the activities of colonial Harvard...