Word: meyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Meyer Lissner, 59, Los Angeles lawyer, founder of the Los Angeles City Club, famed oldtime Republican reformer, director of the campaigns for Theodore Roosevelt (1912) and Hiram Johnson (1919), member of the U. S. Shipping Board from 1921 to 1926; after a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...quiet chat had President Hoover recently with his good and moneyed friend Eugene Meyer Jr. The weather was becoming warm. Mrs. Meyer would perhaps be hastening a trifle her departure to the Meyer country estate. This would leave the Meyer mansion in Washington free to serve as house and home for four days to President-elect Julio Prestes of Brazil who arrived in Washington last week with his gay and handsome son Fernando...
...Hoover vacated his White House, installed the Prestes therein. When Mr. Hoover as President-elect visited Rio de Janeiro* hospitable President Washington Luis of Brazil moved out of his official residence, Guanabara Palace, and in for 60 hours moved Mr. & Mrs. Hoover. Last week U. S. servants at the Meyer mansion were informed that they must not ascend to the second floor, where the President-elect, dynamic, Rooseveltian, big-boned, occupied Mrs. Meyer's pink-draped bedroom. The Prestes' own Brazilian "man" served his master's frugal breakfasts ? with emphasis on large tumblers of iced orange juice, heaping plates...
...Only. In Washington, when ten-minute official calls had been made by Senhor Prestes at the White House and by Mr. Hoover at the Meyer mansion, the President-elect motored to Mount Vernon and Arlington, then dressed for dinner in his pink-draped bedroom, hurried back to the White House where pink roses, hollyhocks and maidenhair ferns decked a banquet board set for 56 men. Vice President Curtis, with Statesman Stimson on his right, faced President Hoover, with President-elect Prestes on his right...
...Allan called on Son Fernando at the Meyer mansion. They chatted through an interpreter. Then son Fernando flew with a Navy pilot to Annapolis (his father following by motor...