Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leaving Vienna for a purpose, little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss climbed down from his railway carriage at Budapest one day last week and shook hands with his beetle-browed confrère, Premier Gömbös of Hungary. It was an occasion. They talked. While the ignorant prattled about the restoration of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Der Kleiner Engelbert, presented with a big bunch of posies by a group of Austrian girls living in the city divided by the Danube, made a cocky little speech...
...Senatorial noses the President calculated that the opposition to his St. Lawrence Waterway Treaty had dwindled, that all but three votes necessary to pass it were available. C. To correspondents the President remarked: "When we inaugurated our custom of having informal press conferences last March there were some who shook their heads and said it couldn't last. Well, it has worked fine, and I don't see why it shouldn't continue for the next three years." A newshawk: "Three years, did you say, Mr. President?" For an instant the President's famed aplomb...
...Manchester, New Hampshire; Hirsh Freed 1L., of Brooklyn, New York; Henry Gesmer 1L., of Quincy; Arnold G. Malkan 1L., of New York, New York; Wallace Mendelson 1L., of Chicago, Illinois; Herbert Peterfreund, 1L., of Glen Lyon, Pennsylvania; Hyman W. Rosenthal 1L., of Paterson, New Jersey; Wilbur R. Shook 1L., of Morristown, New Jersey; Philip D. Straffin 1L., of Campello; Lyman M. Tondel, Jr. 1L., of Seattle, Washington; Seymour J. Wener 1L., of New York, New York; Donald P. White 1L., of Syracuse, Kansas; and Charles S. Yancey 1L., of Dallas, Texas...
...closest bonds . . . between our two nations." After the Ambassador handed over his credentials, the President read in reply: "A deep love of peace is the common heritage of the people of both our countries. ... It will be your privilege and mine to work together." The two men smiled, shook hands, strolled into the Red Room for a private chat...
After a brief, cordial chat, Chancellor Adolf made Carpenter Ignatz superintendent of the building in Munich where the chief Nazi newspaper is published. While Ignatz Jr. and Mrs. Westenkirchner burst into sobs of joy, Ignatz shook the Chancellor's hand at parting, then radiantly exclaimed to Dr. Hanfstaengl...