Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...views of Charles Phelps Taft, public-spirited son of the 27th U. S. President. Before Young Republicans in Topeka one day last December, this Cincinnati lawyer appeared to discuss his civic lessons as they applied to national government. Governor Alf Landon, mightily impressed by the speech, was glad to shake the Taft hand, talk things over. Their minds met. Charlie Taft went home, expanded his speech into a 111-page book, You And I-And Roosevelt.* To Governor Landon he sent a copy inscribed: "To the man who fits the blueprint set forth in this little book." Cried Alf Landon...
Amoskeag's sales fell from $56,000,000 in 1920 to $28,000,000 in 1928; its production from 223,000,000 yd. of cloth in 1912 to 100,000,000 yd. in 1928. In 1927, when it looked as if Amoskeag would have to close, a company shake-up gave the job of saving the company to Treasurer Frederic Christopher Dumaine...
...nominee had to attend to some campaign business in which his daughter could take no part. A stream of big & little Republican wigs, including Oregon's Representative William Ekwall, Wyoming's Senator Robert Carey and National Finance Committee Chairman William B. Bell of Manhattan, stopped in to shake his hand, talk shop, tell him how bright his prospects looked...
...Nearly turned away from the U. S. by Federal immigration authorities in California because his eyes are infected with trachoma (TIME, Dec. 30), this soft-faced, gold-toothed Japanese scrupulously obeyed special Public Health Service regulations laid down for his evangelistic tour. He traveled with a doctor, declined to shake hands with anyone, never entered a private home, made sure that linen and table utensils were sterilized after he used them. Last week Kagawa was in good health after a grueling itinerary during which he spoke before an estimated 750,000 people in 150 cities. About to sail for Oslo...
...acting with her teeth. Of the two, the latter is the more appalling. The earthquake, however, has more noteworthy sound effects. In addition to glimpses of tables falling, walls caving, bricks pouring, houses toppling, streets gaping and a city burning, it includes enough squeaking, howling, booming and crashing to shake the rafters of the sturdiest cinemansion. An earthquake in the real Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer manner, it lasts for 20 minutes on the screen and in all respects except casualties no doubt betters its original of 30 years...