Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scope of my visit here is to offer the Italian contribution to the common work for the common good." Washington officials expected practically no concrete results to spring from Minister Grandi's three-day visit at the Capital...
...Gave Premier Laval a small working vote-of-confidence, 311 to 272, on the issue of French State Railway passenger fares which the Government was authorized to up. Deliberately the Premier postponed debate on his visit to President Hoover, hoping to have something to show for it before the Chamber began to criticize. This "something" would, of course, be a move by Germany to take the "initiative" (desired by Mr. Hoover and M. Laval) in proposing a re-examination of Reparations and War Debts...
Today Tetsuzan Hori is recognized by naturalists as a duck authority. He has lectured on ducks, published monographs on ducks. Main reason for his visit to the U. S. was not to exhibit his paintings but to sit by U. S. duck ponds, meditate on U. S. ducks. He announced last week that the two most interesting birds in the U. S. were the Canada goose and the American wood duck. U. S. critics were deeply impressed with his technical dexterity, his uncanny reproduction of the texture of feathers, but, accustomed to the ideals of modern European paintings, found...
...strong suspicion was voiced by opposition papers that he had withheld important information from the police, who never caught the kidnapers. In the Berg case it was understood Reporter Rogers' editors instructed him "not to get mixed up in it." In the Post-Dispatch's report of Rogers' visit to Lawyer Richards it was stated that "here the reporter acted on his own initiative and responsibility, without the knowledge of his office...
With a plot no more preposterous than many detective stories, Man with the Painted Head contrives an atmosphere more realistic than most. The artists' colony at Storr's Point was isolated, inaccessible except through one gate which was kept locked. When middle-aged Miss Fenwick arrived to visit her niece she and the taxi-driver would have been perturbed had they seen the notorious criminal clinging to the back tire. That same night Playwright Van Buren, big frog of the colony, was stabbed to death with an ice pick. In rapid succession came two other killings, several murderous attempts...