Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt's Uncle Frederic Delano, in the early New Deal years came to know and admire the President. So he was not astounded when onetime NEC Director Frank Walker met him in the lobby of Washington's Hotel Mayflower shortly after the 1936 elections, suggested he visit the White House next day. He was sworn in as Assistant Secretary...
Princeton had a very satisfactory visit with the Middles at Annapolis, the result of it all being a world's record in the 200 breaststroke, 20-yard course, for Captain Dick Hough. The Tiger leader did the ten laps in 2:19.8. Other results were a 123-point drive win by Navy's Gibson and a 1:33.2 backstroke victory by Princeton's Al Van de Weghe...
...Fulgencio Batista the largest, noisiest and most colorful reception that has been given any foreign visitor since Lindbergh. Cuba's barrel-chested little "strong man" had climbed up to the city's mile-high plateau in a special train provided by the President for a ten day visit during which he will exchange neighborhood gossip with Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas, talk shop with Mexico's military chiefs. Conscious that the eyes of Washington were upon him to be sure he did not show too much interest in radical Mexico's expropriation stunts...
...conservative Association of American Railroads knows that thousands of U. S. citizens from inland towns and villages will visit the San Francisco and New York World's Fairs this spring and summer, is fully aware of the passenger competition it will get from the cheaper bus lines, the convenient private automobiles, the more expensive airlines...
Mainly concerned with the news behind the political and military front, Hay took note, however, of many a minor picturesque happening, such as the visit of a temperance delegation, "looking blue & thin in the keen autumnal air," or the tantrums of Mrs. Lincoln ("The Hell-cat is getting more Hell-cattical day by day."). Except where it touches Lincoln, the main note of his diary is one of caustic or amused astonishment, particularly toward Generals McClellan ("the little Napoleon . . . afraid either to fight or run") and Benjamin Butler ("His ignorance of war leads him constantly to require impossibilities from...