Word: cordiales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...during a period of "stabilization," copper men squeezed their price up to stratospheric levels of nearly 24? per lb. It was a cordial invitation to open every high-cost mine in the world. By 1933, the U. S. price was down to less than 5? per lb., foreign quotations...
...wrote two pieces about what he referred to as "Highbrows' Old Home Week." A new extension of geometry which made it appear that the whole is not equal to the sum of the parts (see below) served as a pat allusion for an editorial writer commenting on the cordial meeting between Alf Landon and Franklin Roosevelt (see p. 13), for a sportswriter gloating over the winning spurt of the New York Giants. A letter arrived from the editor of Beauty Shop News requesting that a conference be held on "The Relation of Beauty to Human Behavior." The New York...
...national story. Governor Wilson was timid about the proprieties of it, but allowed himself to be persuaded to accept an invitation from the President. If memory serves me correctly Billy Swan (yachting stories) then of the Associated Press made the contact with the President's party. Result: A cordial invitation from the genial Taft to the man who within a month was to unseat...
...above the broad boardwalk of the terrace Lord Tweedsmuir stepped forward, looking, for all his gold braid, his medals and his cocked hat, very much the dyspeptic man of letters he is, and began: "Mr. President, as the personal representative of His Majesty the King, I offer my most cordial greetings to the first citizen of the United States. Canada welcomes you, sir. . . ." Next greeter was Premier Mackenzie King, roundheaded little sociologist, one-time student at Harvard and resident of Chicago's Hull House, who wore a pale-grey morning coat and grey topper, and looked...
...President Roosevelt received cordial responses from most of the Latin-American executives to whom he wrote early in 1936 suggesting (1 abolition of the Monroe Doctrine 2 a Pan-American conference at Buenos Aires, 3 abolition of tariffs between nations in the western hemisphere, 4 a unilateral treaty of mutual assistance, 5 co-operation to restore order in Venezuela...