Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glazounow is now making his first visit to this country and will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in its regular Friday afternoon and Saturday concerts...
Borah v. Hoover. One thing President Hoover definitely did hear: a statement by an indiscreet newsman to the effect that Senator Borah, following a White House visit fortnight ago, had told reporters that he had informed President Hoover that 17 U. S. District Attorneys should be promptly dismissed and that the President had replied that five were already out. President Hoover wrote Senator Borah a letter. Senator Borah replied. What the letters said was closely guarded, though it was Secretary George Akerson at the White House who revealed the exchange. Best guess as to their contents: President Hoover asked Senator...
...holiday is ever a complete holiday for a member of the House of Windsor. At the Colonial Office last week reporters learned that, when he lands at Cape Town, H. R. H. is expected to visit Durban, scene of recent Zulu riots, in an attempt to calm Zulus before going north to kill lions...
...Majesty the Empress in Luxemburg," said he, slowly pulling off his grey silk traveling gloves. "When I learned that she had come to visit the Grand Duchess* it would have been too late to request an audience. I would not have done it in any case, however, because it would have been considered tactless and would have given a wrong impression at the very moment when Austrian Catholics were demanding an investigation of the legitimacy of the confiscation of Habsburg property...
...serious man named Avery Brundage, seemed far more important than whether Petkiewicz could cover ground farther and faster than some other European runners whom they had invited for this season's indoor races. They decided that the adjective they had chosen applied to "the circumstances surrounding his visit and his actions since arriving." Without further explanation, they barred him from U. S. amateur events...