Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Konrad Adenauer toured the U.S. in the sunglow of the warmest welcome the U.S. had ever bestowed upon a leader of the Germans. He got honorary doctorates of law from Protestant Yale and Roman Catholic Marquette; he was ushered respectfully into the sickroom of the President-the first distinguished visitor since the operation; he was applauded in the streets of Washington, New Haven, New York, Chicag Milwaukee. Everywhere Konrad Adenauer bestowed upon his hosts a tried and towering good will, a sage and avuncular counsel...
Blueprints for Nations. From the start, World Banker Black discovered that his job was far bigger than merely making loans. Some applicants had no clear idea of what they wanted the loan for. One early visitor informed Black that his country needed about $250 million. When asked how the money was to be used, he admitted that he had no particular plans. "We just wanted to get some of the bank's money before it was all gone," he explained. Those who did have specific projects rarely bothered to work out the economic details. Says Black: "It came...
Londoners were snickering last week over a story involving a recent visitor to their city: Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Once he asked a student in Moscow: "Who wrote Anna Karenina...
Plenty of Warning. Former State Senator Arthur L. Coleman of Redfield, who introduced a bill aimed at curbing the Hutterites in 1951, summed up the anti-Hutterite position for a visitor last week. "I'm not opposed to them as people," he said. "But their people work without pay, and the land is in the hands of the church. The people are nothing more or less than a Communist setup. The children grow up without anything but a communal attitude. It isn't the American way, certainly. They take over large areas. It's equivalent to what...
...editorial in the right-wing Our Sunday Visitor, published in Huntington, Indiana (national circ. 749,995), attacked world federalism. The liberal Davenport, Iowa Catholic Messenger, whose relatively small circulation (19,800) reaches 43 states, reprinted the editorial, and alongside, almost paragraph for paragraph, it ran excerpts from Pope Pius XII's statements in direct rebuttal...