Word: greets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next day as he drove up to the 14th Street entrance of the Fair a squad of cavalry and a battalion of troops snapped to attention. Citizen Hoover smiled and waved as a 21-gun salute went off and the Brothers Dawes, Charles Gates and Rufus, came up to greet him. They visited the California and Iowa exhibits, the Hall of Science. At the Alaskan cabin he chatted with Musher "Slim" Williams, who drove a dogteam from Alaska to Chicago. "Mr. Hoover likes dogs," said Mrs. Hoover. "It's hard to get him away when he starts discussing them...
...public schools, teachers and pupils were ordered to greet each other with the Nazi salute and zealous Prussian Minister of Education Bernhard Rust even overstepped the bounds of his authority to extend this salute order to all adults in the State. "The salute is to be expected of every German," read Minister Rust's exuberant order. "Irrespective of whether he is a member of the National Socialist Party or not he will respect this form of greeting as a symbol of the new Germany...
...Park. The President descended a gangplank from the observation platform. Around him were hundreds of old friends and neighbors whom he saluted as "Tom" and "Joe" and '"Harry." A car sped him to Krum Elbow, the estate of his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, who was on hand to greet her son. The Vincent Astors dropped in for luncheon and in the afternoon the President went swimming in his outdoor pool. Determined to be a country squire taking his ease, for the week-end at least, he refused to receive telephone calls even from members of his Cabinet...
...Provincetown citizens gathered to greet the President, give him an expensive ship's model. But said Skipper Roosevelt to his crew: "Let's fool the Press and go on to Gloucester without stopping." So on they went, driving through the rough dark to drop the hook at midnight...
...Most illustrious Alfred, that happy warrior, although we cannot sing songs of the sidewalks of New York . . . it is no less a pleasure to greet...