Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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News from Havana tended to explain why it would have been especially unwise to whipcrack last week. The Scripps-Howard press called a revolution "near," marked as potential leader of the revolt Col. Carlos Mendietta, popular swashbuckler. Returning from a Cuban visit last week Senator David I. Walsh of Massachusetts said...
...accusations of heresy. For usually Dominicans operated the Inquisition, with the occasional aid of Franciscans. But the Inquisition no longer exists. The Black Friars confine themselves to the main purposes of their founder, St. Dominic of Guzman (1170-1221)-to preach, teach and missionize. Master General Gillet's visit to the U. S. was chiefly to inspect the work of his chief subordinates in this country. Those chiefs are Very Rev. Raymond Meagher of Manhattan, provincial of all Dominicans east of the Rocky Mountains, and Very Rev. Pius M. Driscoll of San Francisco, provincial west of the Rockies. They...
Frank Shaughnessy, the man who introduced the lateral pass at Harvard, dropped down for his annual visit yesterday and demonstrated Harvard's chief offensive weapon to the members of this year's football squad. Shaughnessy will be around for several days and will help out with the lateral pass coaching during his stay here...
...Coste and Maurice Bellonte, first to make the Paris-to-New York non-stop flight (see p. 26). In the rose garden back of the White House President Hoover greeted the Frenchmen in the name of the Nation in a little speech about their returning Col. Lindbergh's visit. Later in the White House was served a State luncheon...
...Dawes & friends wandered last fortnight into the Dordogne section of southwestern France, to clamber about the rocks of the Vezere valley, penetrated dark caves and troglodytic dwellings. Traveling from there into northern Spain, the party went to Santander, to visit Altamira Cavern and study the famed Paleolithic frescoes painted with mineral oxides, the bison engravings cut into rock. Then Mr. Dawes visited the National Archeological Museum and the Museum of Natural History in Madrid. Headquarters of the expedition in Spain was in the southern province of Huelva...