Word: le
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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...
...Justo of 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...
...stag, was chased by English huntsmen nine years ago into what they call the English Channel and Frenchmen call La Manche. Defying the English sportsmen, French fishermen pulled the stag aboard their smack, named him Ostert, found him a home in the private park of a French chateau near Le Touquet...
...When Edward of Wales next crosses the Channel to golf, French socialites will present him with the stuffed and mounted head of Ostert who died last week in Le Touquet...