Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which likes to rattle the sword but really cannot afford the martial trappings of a Great Power. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi of Italy last week accepted the invitation of Secretary Stimson to go to the White House on Nov. 14 to discuss the world's economic plight. His visit will follow that of Premier Pierre Laval of France, who was to sail for the U. S. Oct. 16. Already on their way to the U. S. were Deputy-Governor Charles Farmer of the Bank of France and Director Robert Lacour-Gayet...
...innumerable books and pamphlets, even of flights by Charles Augustus Lindbergh & wife. Latest to join the parade is Dr. Elie Faure, famed French critic, parlor anarchist, author of the most readable if not the most authoritative history of art. Recently he arrived in Los Angeles fresh from a visit to Mexico, on his way to Japan, and delivered an address to the California Art Club which appeared for the first time last week in the pages of The Art Digest. Therein he suggested a few things that John D. Rockefeller Jr. might do with his money. Said Critic Faure...
...Angeles evangelist, and her husband Brother David L. Hutton, 30, 25O-lb. dimpled tenor, paused in Manhattan on their way to Boston to conduct a nine-day revival. Sister Aimee was svelte and blonde; on her last visit, newsmen recalled, she was plump and redhaired. Of her husband she said: "The first time I heard David sing was four months ago. He was singing 'Nay, I Will Not Let You Go,' and as I listened I felt myself blush to the roots of my hair. . . ." In Boston Mayor James M. Curley pointed out that Texas Guinan had promised...
...Japanese diplomat Baron Shidehara knew the Rough Rider President, recalls him warmly as "my friend." Asked recently point blank, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Roosevelt?" Japan's Foreign Minister replied with crisp satisfaction, ''Yes, someone told me that in Washington on my first visit...
...much die as join the ghosts that inhabited their house. Mary grew up and fell in love. Still Phoebe, dead but restless, threatened her, and still her mother's influence thwarted an almost materialized evil. In time Mary's son was sent to the house for a visit; the old warfare continued. With the outwardly insane but inwardly heroic death of Lucia, the last old lady. Author Spencer rings down the curtain on a ghost story that is also a subtly convincing psychological drama, a novel that might have been ghosted by Henry James himself...