Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uphill. Before the White House portico Mr. Roosevelt kept his seat in the car, waited a few minutes for President Hoover to join him for the ride up Capitol Hill. A lift of silk hats, a quick handshake, a few formal words and their greeting was over. With the country's most precious cargo behind, Richard Jervis, silvery-haired chief of the White House Secret Service, slipped into the front seat of the car, kept its door cracked and one hand on his pocketed pistol...
...League committed an awful act. . . . The League is now making an attempt to elevate itself to the status of a superState. Is the world at this stage of progress really prepared to accept it? Are the Americans prepared to accept? Why, you aren't even prepared to join...
...sang with Ernestine Schumann-Heink in a huge Ocean Grove (N. J.) festival, maintained perfect poise until the motherly contralto brought him back for a bow, gave him a resounding kiss. The War turned Richard Crooks's mind from singing. He overstated his age to join the 626th Aero Squadron, learned flying from Col. Clarence Chamberlin. He was selling insurance when the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church chose him from 46 applicants to be its tenor soloist. There followed concerts with Walter Damrosch's New York Symphony, concerts on his own, numerous festival engagements, finally an operatic debut...
When he received the 2 a. m. Saturday morning message to join the banking group, Senator Long, Governor Allen and others, he telephoned Mrs. Newmyer to read him the hotel advertisement from TIME beside his bed. From that he got the date and data on which the now famous proclamation was founded...
...once hired Barnum & Bailey's circus for two days to amuse them. His doings are always front-page news for Toledo's Press. When King Albert of the Belgians visited Toledo, Mr. Willys provided shining Willys-Knights for the parade. A reporter in an Oldsmobile tried to join the procession, was run to the curb by a policeman before he reached the newsreel photographers...