Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was more business to transact on the tight, if pleasurable, schedule mapped out by U.S. Ambassador William D. Pawley. Addressing the joint session of the Brazilian Congress, the President recalled Brazil's contribution in bases, materials, and men in World War II, brought down the house when he said simply and directly: "And I'm here to say that we don't forget our friends when they have been friends in need." That night, there was a formal state dinner at Itamarati Palace. Over champagne, Truman cordially invited Dutra and his family to visit...
Guest List. The conference windup was all but lost in the fun. Delegates gathered at the fog-bound Quitandinha Hotel for one last session. That afternoon, in the soft-green-walled second-story "treaty room" of the Itamarati, they signed their names in the blue leather-bound volume entitled "Treaty of Rio de Janeiro." George Marshall arrived last and wrote his first initial so large that it had to be blotted before he could continue. Sol Bloom was barely prevented from signing for Brazil...
...Tues. 10 p.m., ABC). Recorded highlights of the opening session...
...Everyone but a diehard Republican will say, I believe, that we started off very badly, indeed. . . . Let us face it. In the opening months of this year's session, the Republican majority in Congress, under the guidance of the party's senior leaders from hard-core Republican states, approached national issues from the old-line Republican point of view in most instances. That meant that many of them pushed for severe curbs on labor . . . for immediate wide-scale tax reduction . . . for abolition of rent control . . . and it meant that they showed a noticeable disinclination to take any immediate...
...tone was set by U.S. Delegate Arthur Vandenberg. "Señor Presidente y amigos," he began (after that he relapsed into English). Before the session was over, Argentine Delegate Pascual La Rosa strode clear across the Quitandinha's salmon-pink conference salon to hug the Senator in a warm Latin abrazo. The latest U.S.-Argentine dispute had dissolved in love & kisses. The tracks were cleared for the signing of the Inter-American Defense Treaty when President Truman reaches Rio this week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...