Word: breton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bearded old Henry Morgenthau Sr. one day last week stole the show. Vaguely correspondents have been conscious that he, as "wheat adviser'' to the U. S. Delegation, was hobnobbing busily with Canadians, Argentines, Australians, Russians. Suddenly they noticed him pumping the hand of Argentine Delegate Tomas Le Breton...
...Congratulations!" crowed Mr. Morgenthau. "Splendid, Senor Le Breton, simply splendid!" Edging nearer, newshawks got their craws full of a wheat story which carried all sorts of newsy implications, such as possible U. S. recognition of the Soviet Union...
...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...
...farm be an undisturbed haven this summer. Italian laborers were jabbering all over the grounds one afternoon last week. Sokoloff shed his coat, pushed his hat on the back of his head and mounted a tractor. Guests who dropped in for cocktails were set to work, too. Violinist Ruth Breton, wearing white gloves, was given a sickle to manipulate. Ample Soprano Emily Roosevelt,* dressed up in chiffon, was given a hoe. Tenor Mario Chamlee climbed up on the tractor beside Conductor Sokoloff-to help him break ground for a stadium where symphony concerts will be given through July and August...
President Roosevelt pushed his conversations on the World Economic Conference into new ground last week. Argentina, Italy and Germany had their White House innings. Dr. Tomas A. Le Breton, Argentine Ambassador to France, crossed the Atlantic to talk trade agreements with the President. For Guido Jung. Italian Minister of Finance whom Premier Mussolini had dispatched to Washington as his personal representative, President Roosevelt gave a large State dinner-but without Signor Jung who had been fog-bound in New York harbor. Dr. Hjalmar Schacht came as Adolf Hitler's special envoy. When Victor Ridder, one of the publishers...