Word: cordialities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately the conference began, seasoned White House reporters were aware of a new atmosphere of pleasant informality. They could recall friendly expressions of "cooperation" which opened their dealings with Presidents Hoover, Coolidge, Harding, Wilson; but not such cordial warmth as this. Presently they learned of a more important innovation. President Roosevelt intended to answer questions-not only written questions, but impromptu verbal questions popped to his face. He would try it, he said, despite advice by wiseacres that no President since Theodore Roosevelt had been able to keep...
...every member of the staff, with one exception, who started with us is still active in the same capacity. The exception is the man who went to the Cleveland Museum of Art at a salary three times what we were paying him. My relations with him are still cordial and in his books he states that a good part of his well-known success he owes...
...Hindenburg-Hitler negotiations which began with their "extraordinarily cordial meeting" fortnight ago continued last week through an exchange of formal letters which Berlin wits dubbed "the game of questions & answers." With each exchange it became clearer that the President, though he had commissioned Fascist Hitler to try to form a Cabinet with a parliamentary majority, was not anxious that he should succeed. Herr Hitler drew from Old Paul what amounted to a stipulation that the President would not appoint him Chancellor unless he could obtain a "safe majority" in the Reichstag for a Cabinet pledged to continue all the policies...
...will be obliged if you will extend my cordial greetings to the members of the Harvard Republican Club. I am deeply gratified by the many evidences of warm support from the students of our colleges and universities. The union of ideals and sound policies, backed by the energy and enthusiasm of our younger men and women, will be an invincible force in government and in the progress of the nation". (Signed) Herbert Hoover...
...that they were fortunate to be hearing orchestras at all this year, wanted nothing more exciting. For them it was enough to lionize their conductors. Cincinnati praised Goossens for breaking tradition, allowing part of his programs to be broadcast. Detroit's ovation made Gabrilowitsch blush. Cleveland was extra cordial to Sokoloff since this is probably his last season with the orchestra he has conducted since its infancy.* Chicago's welcome to Stock showed clearly that it had not forgotten how near it came to losing its orchestra over a dispute with the Musicians' Union (TIME, March...