Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great Nikolai Lenin set the seal of his approval on William Christian Bullitt, now U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, by calling him "a young man of great heart, integrity and courage." With this Lenin kudos behind him, Mr. Bullitt wound up last week a scouting visit to Moscow on which he was received by almost every prominent Soviet leader except Josef Stalin. Other ambassadors and ministers, most of whom are ostracized in Russia as "Capitalist spies," sat in their embassies and legations while Bill Bullitt hobnobbed with: Premier Molotov, dry, dynamic and full of statistics, who signs...
...maneuvers him into the first stage of the badger game. Salesman Menjou is discredited when a jealous saleswoman (Mary Astor) interferes with his attentions to President Honeywell's daughter. The salesmanager-ship finally goes as a bribe to a maudlin inebriate who has caught President Honeywell about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator...
...Assyrians seven centuries before Christ. His wool-bearing "trees" were the earliest known cotton. For the cotton and for his fabulous gardens at Nineveh he needed water. Dr. James Henry Breasted, famed founder-director of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, returning from an airplane visit to his twelve lieutenants and their staffs busy in the Near East, said that Sennacherib brought his water through a 3O-mi. aqueduct. A member of the Irak expedition, led by a friendly native, had found a 1,000-ft. section of it still standing on pointed arches. Most ancient aqueduct ever...
...which President Roosevelt publicly shared fortnight ago. Last week near Columbia, Tenn. the 28th was so peaceful that even the Sheriff did not know it had occurred. Cord Cheek, 20, accused of raping an 11-year-old white girl, had been exonerated by a Grand Jury, had gone to visit relatives in Nashville. Twenty minutes after he arrived a mob seized him, carried him to Columbia, strung him up on a cedar limb after riddling his body with bullets. Before dispersing they telephoned the Sheriff to come and get him. Said the Sheriff after investigating: "The lynching was handled...
...earnestly requested that no mistake shall be made in the spelling of the name of the Hungarian Secretary of Commerce. Comments by foreign papers on his visit in Rome should be quoted at length...