Word: shake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the hotel was bedlam, and wide open for the multitude of delegates to shake hands, slap backs, bend elbows, rub shoulder^ with half-a-dozen Cabinet members, governors by the dozen, Senators by the score. In such a crowd Ambassadors, mayors, Representatives and children of the President were small potatoes indeed...
...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...
...henchman was allowed to see him alone. In his rooms at the Hotel Cleveland he stood all day publicly beaming, greeting and pumping hands. Senator Vandenberg saw the ex-President in the presence of 200 guests. Ex-Senator Moses, Knox leader, had to stand in line to shake the Hoover hand...
...Country Women's plump president. The women listened to President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull once, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace twice. They deployed over the White House lawn, serenaded the President with Home on the Range, drank Mrs. Roosevelt's lemonade, showed such eagerness to shake the hand of a woman who has homes both in the country (Hyde Park) and city (Manhat tan) that Mrs. Roosevelt had to withdraw behind three White House aides. They made a pilgrimage to Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Arthur E. Brigden, 67, of Marathon, N. Y. announced that, after considerable research...
...lives luxuriously in Manhattan's swank River Touse, owns a 100-ft. yacht called the Arab. Moreover, he has very clear notions on how investment counsel firms hould be run. When he is unable to run them his way, he moves. His latest move roots back to a shake-up which occurred in C. W. Young & Co., nearly a year ago. His backer-directors felt, among other things, that the firm was growing too big to be a one-man show. From Wall Street they summoned two new vice presidents, Robert W. Sinsabaugh, a onetime Central Hanover Bank & Trust...