Word: greets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before noon officials began to arrive in their motors to greet President & Mrs. Hoover. Citizen Hunefeld recognized many of them-Vice President Curtis, Speaker Longworth, the British Ambassador in his red jacket. Finally the great White House gates swung open and Citizen Hunefeld marched grandly at the head of his procession up the curving sidewalk to the big glass doors of the White House. When these opened Citizen Hunefeld did a gallant thing: removing his cap, he stepped aside to allow Mrs. Barrett to lead the line past the President...
Reporters with belted overcoats and large black cameras crowded the platform of Vienna's smoky Westbahnhof to greet the most interesting man in Austria, eagle-beaked Monsignor Ignaze Seipel, onetime Prime Minister of Austria, leader of the Christian Socialist Party, crafty cleric, on his return from delivering a series of theological lectures at the University of the tiny independent Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. As the ex-Prime Minister alighted, the newshawks blurted quick questions. Was it true that he favored the return of the Habsburgs to reign in Austria? Did he want to form a separate most Catholic Kingdom...