Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vandenberg musicale was by no means the only event that served to turn the political spotlight on Republicans last week. In New York, just back from his first visit to Europe in 19 years, Herbert Hoover, still his party's dean, sounded off. Main points: 100 dignitaries with whom he had conversed had given him the impression that immediate general war is unlikely but the U. S. should nonetheless keep out of entangling alliances, and totalitarianism will get you if you don't watch out.* In Bangor, Me., New Hampshire's Senator Bridges called on the country...
Stepping nimbly just ahead of trouble for the second time on his European trip, Mr. Hoover three weeks ago chatted amiably with Poland's white-haired President Ignacy Moscicki, Army Dictator Smigly-Rydz and Premier Felician Slawoj Skladkowski. A week after his visit. Hosts Moscicki, Smigly-Rydz and Skladkowski made their little neighbor, Lithuania, knuckle under to their will with an ultimatum (TIME, March 28). By this time Mr. Hoover had journeyed through Finland, Estonia, had missed a luncheon date with Sweden's Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf because fog delayed his Baltic steamer, and popped in on Copenhagen...
...eyes Jody lives an eventful life. There is no school within reach. His days are spent mostly roaming the game-filled woods, hunting bear and deer with his kindhearted pa and a clan of big, bearded, hell-raising moonshiners and horse traders. Occasionally his pa takes him to visit a hearty old woman who lives in a village on the St. Johns River. He sees a flood, afterward goes hunting where stranded wild animals are thicker than flies. Jody's pal is a pet fawn. He takes it on hunting trips, even sleeps with it when...
...Samuel Alexander Mudd, the mild country doctor who set the leg of Assassin John Wilkes Booth the morning after Booth shot Abraham Lincoln, and who for his apparently innocent treatment languished four years in Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas off Florida. Purpose of Daughter Nettie's visit: to apply for an accountant's job, so that she might earn $200, enough to finish research for an authentic Civil War romance. Asked about her father, she answered: "When he died I was lost, and I have been lost ever since...
...expecting the stork to visit your home this year, and he has to come by way of Royse City, he will have to bring a check book to pay his bill before delivery, as the undersigned doctors delivered many babies during 1937 and over half of them have not been paid...