Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often, from which he had just again appealed in his Mid-Western speeches. For weeks he had been mulling over the situation. Germany, he knew, was in desperate straits. Ambassador Sackett had lately been home with first-hand reports and descriptions. Ambassadors Gibson and Dawes on recent White House visits had told of the bog into which Europe's economy, weighted by Germany, was sinking. Senator Morrow, just back from Germany, had brought word of the fear of an armed uprising there. The President had been reading in the newspapers of Chancellor Briining's visit to Prime Minister...
...London, if I am invited to visit His Majesty the King Emperor, I will wear nothing more than that which is the symbol of India's distress-the loin cloth...
Jews believe that Catholic Alcala Zamora, Spain's new Provisional President, has in his veins a trace of Jewish blood. Last week when Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo, returned from a visit to Pope Pius XI and attempted to slip into Spain, he was caught by police of the Zamora Government, detained under virtual arrest at Guadalajara, "asked to leave Spain...
Exactly what Chancellor Heinrich Brüning might have expected when he ballyhooed Germany's fiscal depression and growing radicalism on his visit to England, came to pass last week...
...famed Hope ("Hoodoo") diamond, estranged wife of Publisher Edward Beale ("Ned") McLean of the Washington Post. She went to the bedside of the irresponsible Ned, who had been laid low by myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart), but not just to smooth his brow. Her visit to the Capital had the two-fold purpose of fighting Ned's Mexican divorce, and fighting the proposed sale of the Post in the interest of her three children...