Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winch they had ever met. Last week Jackson's hotels were brimming with Southern Methodists, 708 delegates and alternates, male and female, laymen and churchmen. In best gown, business suit or frock coat they attended a reception at the Governor's mansion, motored about the surrounding countryside, shook hands with one another, chatted and lobbied for votes as churchmen will. Day & night the delegates converged upon Jackson's big, bare, steel-beamed, municipal auditorium dedicated to World War dead. There they prayed, transacted churchly business, spoke up in meeting, and on several occasions noted that official tabulations...
...Into the White House trooped 319 members of the Harvard Class of '04 with their families, shook hands and exchanged anecdotes with their old classmate Frank Roosevelt. Afterwards they adjourned to the south lawn of the White House for punch and cake with Mrs. Roosevelt...
...young man, are my custodian." said Samuel Insull smiling as he shook hands with Burton Y. Berry, third secretary of the U. S. Embassy, in the cabin of the Exilona's captain. Still smiling he turned to Police Commissioner Nail Bey and said, "If I ever come to Turkey again I will look you up. I hope you will have no official reason to look me up." Then young Mr. Berry signed a receipt for the person of Samuel Insull and the Turks, bowing, departed...
...heard of it." The Stavisky investigation has already linked the swindler to one famed murder of many years ago, the mysterious death of Jean Galmot, Deputy from French Guiana, in 1928 (TIME, April 2). Indirectly last week it brought to final conclusion another financial scandal that 23 years ago shook France almost as deeply. Henri Rochette was another swindler to hold his own. Starting as a waiter in a French hotel with a $1,000 inheritance, he pyramided strange financial operations until in 1908, aged 29, he was the organizer of a dozen companies, one of which had 60 branches...
...East, so that it would appear that history is repeating itself in a strangely short time. The League of Nations will consider, delay, expostulate, threaten, be extremely firm, and Japan will emerge with what she desires. It has been said that Wilson, in his notes to Germany, first shook his fist, and then shook his finger. The League is at least consistent in following the example of its creator. The United States will probably be firm in its traditional policy of friendship toward China; this moral backing will doubtless be highly comforting to China. But unless some Power or group...