Word: visitors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 1931, Orator Coughlin at a Holy Name communion breakfast of New York firemen launched into a spirited eulogy of Mayor "Jimmy'' Walker who was already in bad odor. Soon after, Patrick Cardinal Hayes ruled that no ecclesiastical visitor might address a religious gathering without the Cardinal's permission. Last fortnight the New York archdiocese felt no more kindly toward Father Coughlin when he hustled into Manhattan without bothering to go through the customary formality, as an outside priest, of obtaining permission to speak. Reading of his scheduled address in the newspapers, archdiocesan officials taxed him with...
...First visitor at the "Little White House" at Warm Springs was U. S. Ambassador to Cuba Sumner Welles, who had flown up from Havana. For weeks President Grau San Martin had been agitating the removal of Mr. Welles, on the grounds that his sympathies still lay with the de Cespedes regime. Following the U. S. precedent of never removing an envoy under fire without a policy change, President Roosevelt after a five-hour conference persuaded Mr. Welles to return to his post after a quick trip to Washington to see Acting Secretary of State Phillips...
...derived as follows: mail, $6,000,000; express, $105,000; passengers, $4,538,000; hotels, shops, concessions, hangar space, fuel & oil, $775.000. The system would collect $70 from each transatlantic fare (estimated at $350), $25 from each traveller to Bermuda, $10 from each week-end drome visitor...
Exhibitors. Whereas 22,320,000 admissions were paid it was estimated that the average visitor came three times. So exhibitors had about 7,000,000 people exposed to their shows. The number of visitors claimed by various exhibitors exceeded this figure. Estimates of visitors...
...ASTONISHING ISLAND-Winifred Holtby-Macmillan ($3). Martian-visitor satire on England, by the able authoress of Mandoa, Mandoa...