Word: mesta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven U.S. Senators on a European fact-finding tour reached Luxembourg to find U.S. Minister Perle Mesta as good a hostess as ever. Mrs. Mesta greeted Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas with a kiss, then whisked him and his colleagues through a giddy two-day whirl culminating in a 55 guest dinner party. To round out the welcome, an overexuberant Luxembourg band serenaded the Senators (four of them from the South) with a lusty performance of Marching through Georgia...
...process of wooing the woman voter is a little different, in one respect, from that of winning the support of the recalcitrant and suspicious male-words are sometimes not enough. Having made Georgia Neese Clark Treasurer of the U.S. and having sent diamond-studded Mrs. Perle Mesta off as minister to Luxembourg, the Democrats last week offered U.S. females further evidence of trust and affection. Mrs. Eugenie Anderson of Red Wing, Minn, was named Ambassador to Denmark...
...Perle Mesta," reported the Luxembourg correspondent of the London Daily Mail, "is in a fair way to blunder a path into the hearts of the 300,000 people of this microscopic Grand Duchy . . . Impulsive, dictatorial, generous, fussy and friendly, Mrs. Mesta approached her job like the task of arranging a rather large tea-party complicated by the presence of some quaint foreigners . . . The people of Luxembourg are pleased as punch to have her here...
Once inside the Grand-Duchy, the Mesta motorcade cruised about, unable to find the U.S. legation. At length, greeted by the squealing of several hundred well-voiced pigs at a nearby fair, Minister Mesta settled in her official residence. Even before arranging twelve photographs of her great & good friend Harry Truman, she received the press in her brown & ivory salon. "My President," she said, "thinks you are very, very, terribly important. You may be small, but we have a saying in my country that precious pearls come in small packages...
...Mesta's first evening in Luxembourg, a torchlight procession, including a brass band, appeared beneath the legation's windows. The band played Anchors Aweigh and the crowd sang a greeting to Madame la ministre. The bandleader made a speech, which was followed by the Star-Spangled Banner. The demonstrators marched off to Marching Through Georgia. Said Minister Mesta, looking after them from her front porch: "That was a real sweet thing for them...