This is from the New York Times March 20th 1924 upon the arrival of Rav Kook, Rav Avraham Duber Kahana Shapiro And Rav Moshe Mordechai Epstein in NYC.
DISTINGUISHED RABBIS GREETED AT CITY HALL; Dr. A.I. Kook of Palestine and Dr. A.D. Shapiro of Lithuania Come to Zionist Conference.
Mayor Hylan officially welcomed at the City Hall yesterday Drs. Abraham Isaac Kook, chief rabbi of Palestine; Dr. Abraham D. Shapiro, chief rabbi of Lithuania, and Dr. M.M. Epstein, associate chief rabbi of Lithuania.
