Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outshone the Secretary in the headlines ; how Dr. Moley called at the White House morning, noon & night, was a member of the exclusive Roosevelt bedside Cabinet; how he, an economic nationalist, clashed with internationalist Secretary Hull before, during and after the World Economic Conference, to which Moley's visit as the President's "messenger boy" was pompously over publicized. Back in the U. S. Dr. Moley discovered that his conspicuousness had produced a sour public effect. No longer was he welcomed at the President's bedside before breakfast. The spotlight had shifted to General Johnson...
...Lateran Treaty (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929, et ante), His Holiness has had no need to consider himself any longer "The Prisoner of the Vatican," but he is widening his orbit of movement with extreme circumspection. One day last week he set out soon after dawn to make a second visit to high, cool Castel Gandolfo, a Papal property in which most Romans expect Pius XI eventually to summer. As His Holiness whizzed along with his Master of Ceremonies suddenly POW !-a tire blew...
TIME'S error arose from the fact that, on a recent visit to the White House. Governor Pinchot drove up in a blue Rolls-Royce-a borrowed car. Besides the State-owned Studebaker, Governor Pinchot has a Studebaker of his own. which he scrupulously uses on private expeditions. Mrs. Pinchot drives an Isotta-Fraschini; their son, Gifford Jr., a Lincoln...
...ordered dancing girls to cover their nakedness. On a second visit he found the Fair audiences applauding the change. Said he: "After all, the general public is pretty decent." Public decency was now being put to another test as the coverings were stripped off Mayor Kelly's private finances. Even his friends found it hard to get away from the fact that his official income never exceeded $18,000 per year, which was exempt from Federal taxation; that his tax settlement on $450,000 for three years coincided with the Sanitary District's "whoopee era." After the Sanitary...
...MacPherson divorced Robert Menzies McAlmon, penniless Greenwich Villager whose poems she had read during a visit to the U.S. in 1921. Because Poet McAlmon was awed by her wealth, she proposed the match herself, married him two weeks after their first meeting...