Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prick his ear and mix a drop of blood with that of the Russian or American sitting beside him. He explained that this was a traditional Rus-sian custom among friends and that it made them blood brothers. After this ceremony the General made a flowery talk proclaiming his friendship for the U. S. and the American people, and urging us as representatives of American finance to tell the U. S. Govern-ment when we returned home about his army's need for American money and munitions. The banquet closed with all of the Americans filing past General Semenov...
...from disapproving of the [Czech-Soviet] treaty I look with favor upon it. . . . Moreover I should like to emphasize our friendship for France which nothing can destroy...
...Chip (Bobby Breen), although a new boy, becomes an instant favorite with everybody, apparently because of his bugle-like voice. Across the lake from the camp John Selden (Basil Rathbone) is summering, trying to get a start on his new operetta. Chip and Selden strike up a beautiful, laughing friendship, the operetta goes forward by leaps & bounds, and when Chip's mother, Irene (Marion Claire), comes for a visit and turns out to be a singer too, the end is clearly in sight. No amount of misunderstandings can do more than postpone the inevitable scene in which Rathbone, looking...
Dissension put aside, every Democratic face beamed friendship. Senator King, head of the subcommittee which drafted the vehement report which recommended that the President's Court Bill be rejected so overwhelmingly that no similar proposal would ever be made "to the free representatives of the free people," came and put his arm affectionately round Alben Barkley's shoulder. Senator Pat Harrison, defeated by one vote for the post which Barkley won, spoke in tribute to his successful rival. Franklin Roosevelt actually did not appear in person but Vice President Garner, wise, red-faced old man of the Senate...
...Senator Dawes that when negotiations for the purchase of Alaska were quietly started before the Civil War, $1,400,000 was the tentative price agreed on. During the War, when the Confederacy was trying to get British and French recognition, Secretary Seward persuaded Russia, as a demonstration of friendship, to have its warships cruise along both Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, with the secret understanding that the U. S. would pay for the maneuver. After the war and Lincoln's assassination, a new administration made secret payment for Russia's aid impossible. The cost of the naval maneuvers...