Word: cocoons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Originally Dr. Olaya had arranged with the State Department to come out of his ministerial cocoon as a butterfly head-of-state in mid-June. Unexpectedly the State Department learned that Julio Prestes, President-elect of Brazil, planned to return President Hoover's goodwill visit in mid-June. The prospect of two Latin-American Presidents-elect simultaneously in Washington unnerved the State Department's master of protocol to the point of requesting Dr. Olaya to advance his transmogrification...
...chronicle of the Caterpillar Club appears this week in a new book Jump! by Don Glassman,graduate of the University of Missouri, journalist. A "Caterpillar" is a flyer who has dropped over the side of a disabled or lost plane-like a butterfly wriggling out of its cocoon-and swung down through space to safety with parachute mushrooming over his head...