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...Presidents of the 20 more or less democratic republics of Latin America Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight dispatched copies, inscribed and handsomely printed at his own expense, of the enthusiastically democratic speeches he delivered during his junket to the Pan-American Peace Conference in Buenos Aires last year. Last week came a singularly disappointing response from Good Neighbor Roosevelt's "good friend" President Getulio Dornelles Vargas of Brazil...
...them to the game, there was plenty of free music and beer to banish gloom. As the fleet 14-car special slipped back into Cheyenne that night everybody was content and all were indebted to Wyoming Eagle Publisher Tracy Stephenson McCraken who footed the $2,200 bill for the junket...
...liked to play poker for 48 hours at a stretch, died in 1891. Prince Koke's mother is Princess Kawananakoa, Hawaiian Republican National Committeewoman from 1924 to 1936 who recently entertained Maryland's Senator Millard E. Tydings and his wife when they visited Hawaii on a Congressional junket. Famed in Honolulu as a yachtsman and playboy, Prince Koke's greeting to police at his beach house was: "I'm willing to take the rap." Still too drunk to give a coherent account of what had happened, he was held for investigation...
...Back in Moscow last week, U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies explained that his tour of 14 European capitals was no personal junket but ordered by the State Department, since President Roosevelt wants to know how other countries feel about the U. S. S. R., now the biggest buyer of U. S. war goods (see above...
...blood original to be sent to him in Rome. On II Duce's arrival, screaming men and women raced forward waving flags and handkerchiefs with cries to their Dictator of "A noil A noil" ("To us! To us!") Appearing on his famed balcony Orator Mussolini ended his German junket with one of his shortest speeches...