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...exchange, having coasted downward for a week as the tariff's passage grew more certain, definitely plunged in the year's blackest trading day thus far. ¶ President Hoover greeted at the White House Senhor Julio Prestes, President-elect of Brazil. At a state dinner in the Pan-American Union President Hoover accorded for the first time full social honors to Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, sister and hostess of Vice President Curtis, by escorting her to the table, seating her at his right. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wife of the speaker of the House, who contests title of second...
...Adopted the conference report on a bill appropriating $13,000 to send U. S. delegates to the sixth Pan-American Child Congress at Lima, Peru, next month...
...Faith and Beauty!" Next day Guest Prestes was welcomed to the imposing, white marble Pan-American Building by Statesman Stimson, who as an old school New York lawyer gallantly attempted an oration which would sound sufficiently fiery and cordial when cabled to Rio: ". . . Delightful task of welcoming you! ... In the history of international relations no country occupies a prouder place than Brazil...
...dinner at the White House, at another at Woodley, home of Secretary of State Stimson. He got a presidential salute at Annapolis, laid a wreath on the Washington tomb at Mt. Vernon, wreathed the Unknown Soldier's tomb at Arlington National Cemetery. He was ceremoniously lunched at the Pan-American Union...
June 19-30?Fourth Pan-American Congress of Architects; at Rio de Janeiro. Music...