Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officials at Harvard were as widely known among Harvard alumni as Mr. Pennypacker. As chairman of the Committee on Admissions he travelled widely to visit secondary schools, and in this connection was a frequent guest at Harvard Club gatherings throughout the country...
...recent visit to Sweden, strutting General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Premier of Prussia and Germany's No. 2 Nazi, laid an enormous, swastika-shaped contraption of laurel branches on the tombstone of his epileptic wife.* Last week an irate anti-Nazi raiding party entered the cemetery, carried off the Goring laurel swastika and left this note behind...
...that they enjoyed a splendid banquet in the Busch-owned Adolphus Hotel, the only State-wide function arranged for them; and in Dallas, at the State Fair of Texas, that they were greeted by a cheering crowd of some 35,000 Texans, the biggest turnout for them during their visit here. In Dallas, also, they enjoyed a charming and cosmopolitan society at the beautiful home of the Rue O'Neills that they were not privileged to enjoy elsewhere in the State. In Dallas there was no friction to mar their visit, such as there was in Fort Worth...
...President and his Treasury officials had been up to their ears in domestic affairs. A few half-hours snatched from Acting Secretary of the Treasury Dean Acheson's crowded schedule were about all Sir Frederick, cooling his heels in the British Embassy, had to show for his visit. Then President Roosevelt instituted his new monetary program and it became clear that it would be futile to discuss debt settlement until it could be determined where the dollar would finally come to roost in relation to the pound. That was the subject of the second, last and longest (one hour...
...beefsteak, peas and fruit salad." Taking off shoes and coat in his suite Old Sam Insull dined alone while young Forest Harness digested the Greek Court's 6,000-word decision and conferred with U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh. Next day, without announcing his visit in advance, Minister MacVeagh descended wrathfully on the Greek Foreign Office, spoke his mind to flustered Foreign Minister Demetrios Maximos who perspired profusely, waved his hands and wriggled in his chair but stood firmly by the guns of Greek Justice. Later Mr. MacVeagh returned to smack down under M. Maximos' nose...