Word: visits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Department for not following up U.S. business entries into Latin America with higher-type diplomacy, said as much in a report he forwarded to White House Chamberlain Harry Hopkins. Hopkins read the report, showed it to Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt asked the 32-year-old Rockefeller to visit him. Upshot of the call: Rockefeller's appointment as coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and the beginning of an intermittent 15-year government career...
...Loveless' conquest of the traditionally Republican state capital in 1956. Pitted against Loveless this year is tall, lean, scholarly William G. Murray, 55, professor of economics at Iowa State College, a tireless and dedicated campaigner who shook hands in all 99 counties during the primary campaign, will visit all 99 again before November. A political novice, Bill Murray has previously dipped in politics no farther than the Ames school board, between campaign stops avidly reads such books as Let's Go Into Politics, by onetime Connecticut Governor Raymond E. Baldwin ("Never admit you are losing; if you think...
...53rd General Hospital has been hit repeatedly by shots aimed at Nationalist convoys and planes. I went to see young Captain Kua China, the hospital's only real surgeon, who on my previous visit seemed a rock of physical endurance and calm. Now it hurts you to see him. He is exhausted. His eyes are vacant and always near tears. His hand is still steady at the operating table, but trembles when he lights a cigarette. "Every day and every night shells fall here," he says wearily. "We've had to put all patients except the walking wounded...
...statement in a local newspaper regarding John Foster Dulles's visit to Harvard last weekend has caused considerable stir within the University...
Shortly after the story appeared, the University News Office called the Associated Press, United Press International, and the Boston Globe with a clarification of the story. The Office explained that Dulles's visit was possible because of his presence in Boston for an address to the North Atlantic Treaty Association. Speaking for the Administration, the News Office explained that the seminar was "an established part of the academic program at Harvard," and as such, was "off-the-record...