Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From that time on Crazy Jack began to visit law courts. He was not worried by litigation. In fact he often fell asleep on the benches in courtrooms. A rival oilman had his first lease cancelled in court and Crazy Jack declared incompetent. A local businessman was appointed his guardian. Soon his farm was producing 12,000 bbl. of oil a day and his income had reached $60,000 a month...
...march across Panama, undertaken on his own initiative. And the man already selected to run the Fleet in 1934-35 is so unique, so vital a personality that his term of command is sure to be memorable. On June 15, two days before the Fleet ends its 17-day visit to New York, all hands will be called on the quarter-deck of the Fleet's flagship, the band will be paraded, high officers will turn out in their gold braid and cocked hats. Admiral Sellers will step forward, read an order appointing him commandant at Annapolis. Then lean...
...tiny out-of-the-way Manhattan theatre had a visit from the police fortnight ago. Inside, an African opera was playing, half-naked bucks stomping the stage and pretty dark-skinned girls wriggling excitedly. But the police were not disturbed by the stage doings, nor by the fact that the producers had radical leanings and called themselves "workers." Trouble was that the 23rd Street Unity Theatre, a small rude hall which used to be a beauty shop, had a licensed capacity for only 150 persons whereas 300 spectators were squeezing inside nightly, crowding the aisles and hard, wooden benches...
From Chicago, Publisher Hearst went on to Washington for his first visit with the man he had helped to put into the White House. Long after luncheon he and President Roosevelt sat talking about NRA. which Mr. Hearst last autumn called "a menace to political rights and constitutional liberties.'' They might also have talked of the Brain Trust, which Hearst papers once called ''infatuates, dogmatists, cheerio pundits." or the cancellation of airmail contracts which Hearst violently opposed. More happily, publisher might have congratulated President on the Stock Exchange Bill, which he warmly favors...
...Hearst party sailed for Gibraltar where it will disembark, spend a month in Spain stalking antiques. After a visit to Italy Mr. Hearst will go on to Bad Nauheim where he will learn with interest that a rabid Nazi newspaper, Deutsche Wochenschau, has spread the word that he is a "notorious Jewish agitator whose real name is Herz." In London a caravan of automobiles has been engaged to whisk the chief & retinue to the Hearst castle in Glamorgan, South Wales...