Word: argentina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead in Buenos Aires. Among the 300 listeners seated on gilt chairs were George and Augustus Gutrie, bereaved brother-in-law and nephew, Cabinet members and their ladies, Vice President & Mrs. Garner, Mrs. Roosevelt, the President himself, sunburned, leaner, refreshed from 28 days absence, by 12,000 miles to Argentina and back...
...unsuccessful because Argentine army officers had smothered the heckler, were dragging him out of the hall. Out of sight, the heckler's identity was thus concealed from all present except the host of the occasion, Argentina's President Agustin Justo...
...Argentine chauffeur, who beamed from ear to ear at the unexpected honor. The crowd cheered filial devotion as Lieut. Colonel James Roosevelt buttoned a yellow slicker up around his father's neck. "Aprés vous," said the bilingual President of the U. S. to the President of Argentina, and followed him up the gangplank...
...Everyone else was shaken by the hand and touched to the heart. The last that Buenos Aires saw of Franklin Roosevelt he was standing on the bridge as the Indianapolis pulled out into sluggish, shoreless Rio de la Plata, waving a blue and white scarf, the national colors of Argentina...
...strings of Latin American hearts fail him completely. At a press conference at the U. S. Embassy he welcomed 50 Latin newshawks. Deftly he put them at their ease, took charge of the interview. When asked whether the U. S. would join the League of Nations (of which Argentina is a loyal adherent) he said, with a frankness which could provoke no antagonism, that he felt sure he could say the answer was "no." Then a hesitant newshawk in broken English asked the question which left him for once at a total loss: Please, would he relate a small moral...