Word: argentina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perspiring happily, Uncle Henry Morgenthau* told how he had been working "day and night" since the Conference opened to line up the World's Big Five wheat exporting countries (U. S.. Canada, Russia, Argentina, Australia) in a pact to enforce 15% cuts in their next year's wheat crops and restrict exports. Since rich & pious Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett came to the Conference proposing such a plan he joined forces eagerly with Mr. Morgenthau. Because a wheat pact may lead to diplomatic recognition and because Russia is having a hard time just now to grow...
...fisted President Augustin P. Justo of Argentina fortunately took the Senate on. His instructions to the Argentine Delegation in London, he declared, were to support null efforts to reduce wheat acreage and the Senate be damned! Last week the Senate subsided. In London jubilant Uncle Henry pumped the hand of Argentina's Le Breton, spread his story, rubbed his long bony fingers, declaring "All that remains now is the settlement of actuarial details...
University of Missouri Robert Woods Bliss of St. Louis, retiring Ambassador to Argentina ... LL.D. Dr. Albert Ross Hill, Missouri's one-time (1908-22) president LL.D. Dr. Isidor Loeb, Missouri's acting president in 1923 .... LL.D...
...Davis Cup team (Vines, Allison, Lott, Van Ryn): the American zone finals; 4 matches to 0, when the fifth was canceled because of rain; against Argentina; at Washington...
Last week the U. S. delegates were trying to agree with delegates of Canada, Argentina, Australia on some plan of restricting wheat acreage, which they could then discuss with other delegates from Russia and the Danubian countries, and finally take ready-made to the London Economic Conference in June...