Word: braden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Possessed of a budding paunch and a brand new engineering diploma, young Braden set to work in his father's Chilean copper mine. He was 21 when he saw 19-year-old Maria Humeres del Solar in the box of a Santiago theater. By managing to marry her six months later he set something of a record in overcoming the restrictive protocol of Latin courtship, and the lack of a common language. (Both now speak excellent Spanish and English.) Two of Braden's handiest assets in Latin America have been his greying senora's charm and judgment...
Wealth & a Conscience. Moneyed by mines, electric power and oil deals, Spruille Braden was another rich man on the Hudson in the late '20s. His menage at Riverdale, N.Y., included a stable of South American prizefighters who slept over the garage...
...crash did not exactly give Braden a social conscience; it awakened one. Dinted but by no means bankrupt, he did some heavy thinking which later led ex-Attorney General Homer Cummings to say: "Braden just couldn't help convincing himself that he was a progressive...
...time and had to come out." It came out in the form of money and personal support for Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 campaign. The Roosevelt victory, the laws of politics, and Braden's background made him a natural for Latin diplomacy. He soon completed his qualifications by selling all his Latin holdings...
...Braden Way. In dictator-ridden Buenos Aires last May, Spruille Braden stated his policy in one explosive sentence: the United States is against dictators everywhere. By the same token he is for freedom everywhere - period...