Word: hjalmar
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...Lunched with grey, good-natured, conservative Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, perpetual in-&-outer among Hitler's economic advisers. If any scheme was abroad for a World Bank to redistribute gold along the lines proposed by the State Department's Brain-truster Adolf Berle (TIME, Feb. 19), Dr. Schacht was the man to discuss it with...
...Miss Isabella Comeron gave the Finnish Legation in Washington a $2,000 diamond bracelet. Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procopé issued an immediate appeal for bicycles. New York's fiery, hen-shaped Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia told 1,200 lunchers thatcivilization was on the side of Finland and Finland was on the side...
...disappointment of Washington society columnists, who came this time not to jot down details of furbelows and jewels, but to spy out diplomatic incidents, Nazi, British, French, Russian, Finnish envoys avoided each other with frigid finesse. Near-incidents: 1) Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky almost bumped into Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope, but just in time handsome Mr. Procope turned aside toward the chocolate cookies. 2) Rumors spread that the fancy pants of Mehmet Munir Ertegun, Turkish Ambassador, split slightly as he bowed before the President. No one could confirm this rumor, as the Ambassador stood poker-faced with his back...
Cold and clear was the U. S. reaction to Russia's move. At the White House the President conferred with Statesmen Hull and Welles, spent 45 minutes with Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope. All day reports of Russian bombings of Helsinki came to the State Department from the U.S. Minister to Finland. At 6 p.m. Mr. Hull got word that in a raid of 15 planes, bombs had fallen near the U. S. legation, that buildings within three blocks were in flames...
...agreement was that it was popular in the U. S. At the National Press Club in Washington, where generally foregather the most cynical, disgusted, acid-eyed newsmen on earth, a routine luncheon turned into an emotional spree: gathering to hear about news broadcasting in Europe, reporters spied Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procopé in the audience, cheered him to the rafters...