Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Postmaster General. But he has never before been both Postmaster General and chairman of the National Committee, a prime fund-collecting job. Much criticism has been directed at "General" Farley for holding not only these offices but also the post of New York State Democratic Chairman. A long morning visit to the White House by Mr. Farley resulted in the news that he would retire from his state chairmanship when his term expires in September, from the national chairmanship after the November elections. To newshawks a broad hint was dropped that Postmaster General Farley would like to run for Governor...
...General Mitchell Palmer's anti-Red drive of 1919. She spent years wandering across Europe. Few months ago, faded and old (64) but still defiant, she went to Toronto on a British passport, applied for permission to re-enter the U. S. for 90 days. She wanted to visit friends in Rochester where 45 years ago she was a seamstress in a clothing factory. While the State Department was considering her case, she said last week: "It is not in the brain work of capitalists to make much improvement for the masses, but the United States has done...
When Cardinal Innitzer first began to charge that Soviet citizens were starving, a spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Office remarked. "In Russia, I am happy to say, we have no famine and no cardinals" (TIME, Aug. 28). Soon afterward, on a goodwill visit to Russia, French ex Premier Edouard Herriot toured the regions of alleged starvation, pronounced Soviet famine a myth (TIME, Sept. 11). Moscow correspondents, denied free access to the areas in question at the time, were inclined to conclude from later visits that some starvation there had been. Driving ahead in Vienna, Cardinal Innitzer, just before Christmas, secured...
Girding up their Siamese loins, yellow-robed priests bathed skimpy little King Prajadhipok and curvesome Queen Rambai Barni last week, made them ready in the sight of Buddha for a second visit to the U. S. where His Majesty's eyes will be further attended to (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932). Just as they were about to sail the Siamese Government was obliged to announce that "slight trouble has broken out in the Navy and it is not entirely on the side of the government...
...West Finley Township, Pa. went Henry Ford to visit the birthplace of the man who wrote McGuffey's Readers...