Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beautiful rainbows, double omens of a happy visit, hung over Kailua one morning last week as the U. S. S. Houston, with President Roosevelt aboard, glided up to the west coast of the island of Hawaii. Governor Poindexter bustled out from shore to pay his respects. Then the President was free to go fishing for the great a'u. All day he fished and fished but at night returned a'uless to the Houston...
...fell in love with a beauteous sitter named Mutzli Koch, wife of a Düsseldorf doctor and art collector. They ran away together. After her divorce Dix and Mutzli were married and so were Dr. Koch and Mutzli's sister. Now the two families are friends, visit one another...
Last time the McAdoos travelled together was in 1933 when they went abroad, she to put Ellen, 18, elder of their two daughters, in school in Paris, he to visit Russia. When she returned she spent a few days in Washington and then departed, not to be seen in the capital again. The Senator remained alone in Washington all winter, all spring. At 70 he is still almost as good a dancer as he was at 50. When one of the Senate pages, having spied him dancing at the Shoreham Hotel with Rose, pretty young daughter of U. S. Tariff...
Last week, while the island was in high excitement over President Roosevelt's visit, the little yachts began to appear off Oahu's Diamond Head. None of them approached the record for the 2,200-mi. crossing: 11 days, 14 hr.. by Manner in 1923. First across the line was Vileehi, in 13 days, 3 hr. She was followed by Manuiwa, Burrapeg, Fandango, Monsoon, Altair and Dolphin. After four days, when the handicaps of all other possible winners had expired, officials of the Trans-Pacific Yacht Club announced the winner: Harold Dillingham's Manuiwa. William Candy...
Commander Hunsaker, a trained technical observer, is already in Europe. Nevertheless he was to arrive home this week and with Members Warner, Berres & Lane, board a Department of Commerce plane Aug. 3 for a month's tour of the U. S. to visit Army & Navy bases, inspect commercial airports and aircraft factories and look over airmail, passenger & express route...