Word: greet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seats of power. Secretary Woodin was ill and Dean Acheson was quietly running the Treasury. Hardmoney-men Sprague and George Leslie Harrison were in London tentatively arranging to stabilize the dollar. On June 29 Mr. Morgenthau sped to Campobello Island, was on the launch with Mrs. Roosevelt to greet the President as he sailed on the Amber jack II. On July 1, the President and Mr. Morgenthau boarded the cruiser Indianapolis and steamed southward. Two days later the cruiser's wireless ticked out the President's message: 1) that the U. S. would not consent to stabilize...
Thus did whiskey-producing Britain greet the 5-to-4 vote by which Utah last week became the 36th Repeal State.* Americans, knowing for some time that Repeal was a certainty, were not excited or much surprised that quiet Utah should have been the deciding State. Pennsylvania and Ohio were the 34th and 35th-Pennsylvania by a majority of 1,000,000 votes, Ohio by 800,000. Had Utah gone Dry the 36th State would have been Bourbon-producing Kentucky, where Repeal was last week ushered in with violence and bloodshed...
When Santa Claus arrives in Boston on Thanksgiving Day after a long hop from the frozen North, one hundred and fifty Harvard students, garbed in multicolored costumes and leading the weirdly shaped Tony Sarg balloons will be at hand to greet...
...Brazil has recovered from the motor accident in which he broke both legs last spring (TIME, May 8); he was up in the Graf Zeppelin last week circling Northern Brazil, flew back to Rio just in time to send out several battleships and 60 Brazilian naval planes to greet President Justo in whose further honor Brazil printed commemorative postage stamps...
...ascent, the U. S. S. R. landing lightly in a meadow about 60 mi. from Moscow. Fully half the 80,000 population of Kolomna, carefully primed by Dictator Stalin's propagandists to witness a great scientific conquest by their nation, poured across the Moscow River to greet the aeronauts. Pilot George Prokofiev mounted the gondola, harangued the crowd with a lecture in which he credited the flight's success entirely to the Proletarian Revolution and the Communist Party. His companions, Ernest Birnbaum and Constantin Godunov, declared the balloon's scientific apparatus had worked perfectly. They found...