Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have nothing but the friendliest feeling for the U. of P. since at the time of a recent visit they treated me particularly courteously...
...chunky Premier Doumergue, Death's visit to his parlor (see above) was the climax to an exhausting week. At long last France saw prospects of a balanced budget, when the Cabinet met with President Lebrun and signed five of the emergency decrees outlined fortnight ago (TIME, April 16) which will pare $264,000,000 from government expenses. BUT the balance will be possible only if France's gigantic army of civil servants and her War veterans agree to accept the projected cuts in salaries and pensions...
...Luttrellstown Castle, Clonsilla, Ireland, on a visit went Lady Sylvia Ashley and Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks, corespondent in Lord Ashley's suit for divorce. In Philadelphia. Pa., Mary Pickford said: "Men are like little boys- when they are tired of being naughty they are glad to come home.'' Harry (''Black Panther") Wills, who retired from heavyweight boxing ia 1932 and now owns two apartment houses in New York's Harlem, began the one-month fast which he has kept every February for the last 20 years, explained why he was late in starting his 21st...
...formally close the "Holy Door" and bring to an end the "Holy Year of Human Redemption" celebrating the 1,900th anniversary of Christ's death (TIME, April 3, 1933). During the year 1,200,000 Pilgrims had come to Rome, gaining full jubilee indulgence for their sins by visiting Rome's four great basilicas. For the rest of the Catholic world the Pope last week announced that until next Easter the faithful at home may gain the same plenary indulgence. They must visit three local churches and a Cathedral picked by their Bishops, pray for "the return...
...Legislators are legislating about," 100 Congressmen & wives trooped into the visitors' gallery, eyed the brokers' antics with astonishment. President Richard Whitney tried to explain what was going on but the junketing Congressmen soon left to see 90 tons of gold in the Federal Reserve vaults, to visit Ellis Island on fireboats...