Word: presidencia
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...Buenos Aires last week appeared a delegation from Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña, chief city of Argentina's cotton belt. To a Government already well-nigh frantic over the country's economic troubles the delegation put one more problem. Rains had ruined half the cotton crop, last hope of that curiously international, politically chaotic, economically devastated region known as the Argentine Chaco...
...most of all an opportunity to sit in on one of Franklin Roosevelt's press conferences. Struck with admiration he flew home and startled Panama by instituting press conferences of his own. Year ago he returned Franklin Roosevelt's hospitality, had an elevator installed in the Presidencia so that he and beauteous, curvesome Senora Arias could make the U. S. President comfortable when he came to dine. But until last week all Dr. Arias had got from his fellow ruler was 1) an offer of 59? dollars for Canal rent; 2) a Roosevelt order permitting the sale...
Gennerich did not know. So Franklin Jr. bobbed into the Presidential cabin, bobbed out again. There was no statement. "If father writes a speech for tonight," he informed the newshawks, "it will be handed out at the Presidencia...
...cost of $7,000, Harmodio Arias, following his trip to Washington last autumn, had an elevator installed in La Presidencia, his official residence, in anticipation of President Roosevelt's coming there to dine. Rare is the spot with which Franklin Roosevelt does not trace some family connection, and Panama proved no exception. Opening his dinner speech on the "trusteeship" of the Canal, he remarked...