Word: uruguayans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tendered by massive President Dr. Gabriel Terra of Uruguay to Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the nine other foreign ministers of American countries at the Conference. To seat the 200 statesman-guests, each jealous of his rank, was the ticklish job of Senor Carlos de Yeregui, mincing-mannered Uruguayan Chef de Protocols. In plenty of time before the banquet Senor Yeregui called his limousine, set out from his office with the 200 precious place cards and the indispensable seating list. Chuckling, Montevideo's merry Communists stopped Senor Yeregui's car, forced his chauffeur to drive down...
...delegates of the Conference were silver-haired, sweetly reasonable U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Mexico's darkling, pugnacious Foreign Minister Puig Casauranc, high-powered salesman of the idea that there ought to be a Spanish American League of Nations to "offset" the Yankees and Canadians. Uruguayan Communists let Senor Casauranc alone-though Mexico does not recognize the Soviet Union-but strewed the path of the U. S. Secretary of State with leaflets reading "Down with Bandit Hull! Down with Yankee Imperialism...
...with applications of dried toad venom and which made Shakespeare note: "Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head (As You Like It). From glands located behind the eyes of 7,500 U. S., German, Jamaican, Uruguayan, South African, Chinese and Japanese toads. Dr. Chen extracted potent drugs (adrenalin, cholesterol, ergosterol, and two digitalis-like substances) which modern scientific medicine considers indispensable. Apparently toads do not use these potent drugs in their own economies. When Dr. Chen removed the glands from several toads, they seemed as well...
...Uruguayan Legation held Dr. Ricardo Dolz, Rector of Havana University; and Carlos Manuel de la Cruz...
...take this lying down. Within an hour three motors full of gunmen cornered the car of Dr. Ricardo Dolz, an anti-Machado leader and rector of the National University, and attempted to shoot him down. Their aim was poor. Blue with fright. Dr. Dolz escaped and hid in the Uruguayan Legation where he was promptly joined by another opposition leader, Carlos Manuel de la Cruz...