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Since, after all, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Wilhelm Göring have the rank and dignity of statesmen, and since, after all, Charles Augustus Lindbergh is only a civilian aviator, the German Chancellor and the Prussian Premier did not go to Berlin to greet him, remained on rustic vacation in south Germany. They did announce that "in principle" they would receive the Colonel whenever he is in their vicinity, did send their personal aides to escort him, click heels and kiss Mrs. Lindbergh's hand...
...race in the world, the Chicago Yacht Club's famed Mackinac Race from Chicago up Lake Michigan, through hazardous Mackinac Straits to Mackinac Island. Sailing the 331-mile course and due to finish this week was the largest (42) fleet of yachts ever to participate. On hand to greet the winner were Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Harry M. Daugherty...
...ceremony, Franklin Roosevelt eased away from the cares of Drought, Labor and Politics, reached home in high spirits. Four hundred Hyde Park Democrats, members of the 7-year-old Roosevelt Home Club, were waiting on neighbor Moses Smith's lawn when President and Mrs. Roosevelt drove up to greet them. Chatting easily from the back seat of his car, the President told his neighbors about the Triborough Bridge, about the drought, about the growth of local interest in government which he thought was "the greatest gain in the Depression and the three years of revival which have followed...
...Denver early next morning Governor Edwin C. Johnson and Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton, both Democrats, were at the station to greet Colorado's distinguished guest. The party piled into automobiles and, with Nominee Landon leaning out to shake hands wherever his car stopped, motored through Denver and out to a rented 1,200-acre ranch near Estes Park, in Roosevelt National Forest, where the Landon family was to spend the summer. In the big, low, rambling ranch-house that afternoon newshawks found the Republican nominee stretched out before a log fire in breeches and windbreaker, scratching away...
Nonetheless Geneva's rugged, Calvinist and God-fearing citizens who normally ignore celebrities were at the railway station in thousands at 8:30 a. m. to greet the genuine Haile Selassie with roars of "Vive l'Empereur!". Many turned their plump Swiss backs on handsome young "Tony" Eden as he alighted. The Emperor, whisked to the Carlton Park Hotel, went at once into a huddle with his U. S., French and Swiss advisers. In this crucial hour His Majesty had need of all the cunning which carried him originally to the Ethiopian Throne. Close to the astute...