Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania's President William Wallace Atterbury, General Electric's Owen D. Young and many another U. S. tycoon felt something like a slap in the face last week when one of Europe's biggest industrialists quietly dubbed railway electrification obsolete. Arriving in Manhattan for a week's visit, Managing Director Sir Henri W. A. Deterding of Royal Dutch-Shell said: "Electrification, except in a suburban way, is a thing of the past. Diesel power is far cheaper than electricity. With electricity, if the power plant breaks down, nothing moves, but with Diesel power the railways are absolutely independent. Why, Diesel...
...Bitting's last trip to Southern California was made at the request of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Southern California Conference, and at the expense of that society. The request for his visit was made with the hope that satisfactory and mutually beneficial arrangements to care for the bond issue might be made. The arbitrary attitude then assumed by Mr. Bitting, and which finally prompted his unprecedented tirade against the Methodist Church, prevented the making of any headway...
Flames roared through the Great Ballroom and the bedchambers in which slept Edward of Wales on his last visit (TIME, Nov. 28. 1932). "Come on, boys!" roared the Fire Chief. "Carry out what you can before the roof goes!" As firemen, villagers and servants darted through the smoke, lugging Abercorn's collection piece by piece to safety, Belfast police ringed the Castle to guard the Governor's treasures. Out came a $50,000 Van Dyck. Attempting to rescue a huge tapestry two strapping yokels got tangled in their prize and rolled spluttering out the front door. A dauntless parlor maid...
...chief opponent, the Conservative Party, put up no candidate and boycotted the polls, de claring: "No matter how the people vote, the Government will elect Lopez." After the balloting, President-Elect Lopez obtained what looked to Colombians like the tacit endorsement of President Roosevelt by paying an elaborate goodwill visit to Washington (TIME, July 9). With Banker Alfonso Lopez, as he marched in to be inaugurated last week, was his father, Banker Pedro Lopez. Said the new President in his inaugural address: ''I promise active co-operation with all countries, but especially with those in the Western Hemisphere...
...only party officially extant under his Dictatorship, the Fatherland Front. Last week Dr. Schuschnigg decided that the Chancellorship was enough for him and with alacrity permitted Vice Chancellor Prince von Starhemberg to assume the title of Leader. Together they announced that as soon as possible they will visit Benito Mussolini, longtime patron of the Austrian Dictatorship. Meanwhile last week Chancellor Schuschnigg received correspondents for the first time and wobbled in his state ments toward something which looked like an effort to replace Dictatorship by Coalition...