Word: handshaken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army. He was much put out this past year as he watched the parade of other Latin-American strongmen to Washington: Cuba's Batista, Nicaragua's Somoza, Brazil's Aranha and Monteiro (TIME, Nov. 14, et seq.). All these received official invitations, were saluted, handshaken, welcomed at the White House. But for Dictator Trujillo, no invitation came...
Since the French Senate consists mostly of wealthy greybeards, their rage at being sent five such bills by the Chamber of Deputies showed itself in rudeness to whomever they could snub. Normally a Premier entering the Senate through its lobby is handshaken by dozens of greybeards. Last week Senators pointedly cut M. Blum, greeted in silence his appeals to pass the bills, refused so much as to debate them until the following week...
Photographer George Shelton of William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner had just made one "shot" of The Chief ("WR") being handshaken at city hall by Mayor James ("Sunny Jim'') Rolph Jr. He reached for his bottle of flashlight powder, to prepare another. As he removed the stopper there was a searing flash, a dull detonation, a blast of choking smoke and flying glass. The crowd of 3,000 milled and trampled at the cry of "bomb!" Photographer Shelton lost a thumb, nearly lost an eye from what every photographer fears-hot embers falling into the powder...
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