Word: cordialities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Butte, he was at the pier to welcome his superior. As the Secretary of War came down the gangplank, the Filipino throng stared admiringly at the soldierly figure, the clean-cut features, the ready smile, then up went a great cheer which oldtimers said was more friendly, more cordial than any heard around the Manila docks since Secretary of War William Howard Taft landed there with his great smile...
...occasional game of golf (medium) is the only pastime allowed to punctuate Professor Monroe's far-flung cultural ministrations, which have extended to Poland, Jugoslavia. Smyrna, Porto Rico. China. Long a cordial sympathizer with the woes of China, it was Dr. Monroe who formed the plan whereby the Boxer indemnities, remitted by Congress in 1924, were steered into a fund for Chinese educational development. Last winter, fearful lest China turn Red, he urged the State Department to have German Reparations applied by capitalist Europe and the U. S. to China, to disband armies, build public works. The State Department...
...Harding tomb in Marion spectators seemed far more interested in Calvin Coolidge than in President Hoover. They so pressed about him that he could not reach his own car and had to be driven away in a commandeered machine. Springfield was the most cordial to the President but even there there was no "whooping-it-up-for-Hoover," no lusty demonstrations, no hat-tossing. Careful planning by the Hoover bodyguard averted all unfriendly exhibitions throughout the trip. At Springfield 350 "hunger marchers" who planned to demonstrate before the President were kept off-stage under virtual arrest by the local police...
...bank will be a big client, also one to whom they can send much business. Chairman of Fiduciary Trust which starts business with $1,000,000 capital, is Pierre Jay, great-great-grandson of the great John Jay, first Chief Justice of the U. S. Banker Jay is neat, cordial, mentally meticulous He went to Groton and Yale (1892), was made Bank Commissioner of Massachusetts. His biggest accomplishments in Massachusetts were the segregation of thrift accounts in commercial banks and the drafting of the first Credit Union Law (governing mutual small loan associations). When the Federal Reserve Bank...
...beast!" grinned a Secret Service guard stamping the snow off his boots. Meanwhile Mr. Southgate, deftly casting aside his outer garment, advanced, bowed stiffly to the King, crisply said: "I have been directed by the President to extend to Your Majesty and to Her Majesty the Queen a most cordial welcome to the United States. . .. The President and Mrs. Hoover . . . are looking forward with the keenest anticipation to Your Majesties' visit to Washington...