Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irving Fisher, noted Yale commodity-dollar advocate and a frequent visitor at Hyde Park, will speak to the Association November 11 on "Monetary Policies Under the New Deal." Other activities planned are monthly stag beer nights and winter ski trips...
...Less effusive was another Californian who followed Mr. Sinclair as a visitor to Hyde Park. Senator William G. McAdoo returned from Europe by no means pleased at Sinclair's nomination over his own candidate, George Creel. "Personally I like Mr. Sinclair very much," he admitted noncommittally. Then he entered the Roosevelt study. Later the President told newshawks that "very little, if any," politics had been discussed...
...Block, we have a free Press!" replied II Duce with what his visitor described as "a smile of great kindness." Then thoughtfully the Dictator added: "Of course when a writer attacks the Government in a way we know to be harmful to the people, then we call his attention to it. Yes, we call his attention...
...island for the ceremony of setting the first presidential foot on Hawaiian soil. Under leis the smiling President debarked, was met by a great brown & yellow crowd which knew little of the U. S. custom of cheering a great man. A drive through Hawaii National Park brought Visitor Roosevelt to the crater of Kilauea. There he tossed in a bunch of ohelo berries to appease Pele, goddess of volcanoes...
...cowboy. He comes from Coalgate in Coal County, is the son of a missionary to the Indians and is famed for his peculiar behavior on the bench. When his raven-like eye spots a prominent onlooker in his court room, he is apt to halt proceedings, introduce the visitor, make him take a bow. He holds that every judge, before he takes office, should have at least five years experience as a poker player, to get an insight into human nature. Last autumn he wrote a letter to a newspaper declaring that he enjoyed seeing the execution of Negro Charley...