Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international trade game, how many bushels of apples and pears equal how many gallons of wine? All last week the U. S. haggled that point with France. The original import quota of French wines had been 784,000 gal. Most of that had been bought up in the Christmas rush. If any more French wines were to be admitted, the Federal Alcohol Control Administration politely informed the French Embassy in Washington, France would have to buy a great deal more U. S. apples and pears...
Through Commercial Attache Maurice Garreau-Dombasle. the French Govern- ment announced that if the wine quota were doubled to 1,568,000 gal., France was prepared to quadruple its U. S. apple & pear imports to 900.000 bu. That seemed fair enough until it was learned that the thrifty French were quietly planning to up the tariff on U. S. fruits. This joker discovered, M. Garreau-Dombasle was required to present assurances from his Government that the fruit tariff would not be raised. He did, and the ratio of the international trade stood roughly thus: Frenchmen would eat two pecks...
...swung the apple & pear-wine deal was Raymond Clendenin Miller of AAA. A native of Vincennes, Ind., Mr. Miller was preparing for his M. A. examinations at Catholic University when the War broke out. By the time his classmates were getting themselves fitted for graduating gowns, Mr. Miller was wearing an infantry lieutenant's uniform. He served with the 89th Division in France, later with the 160th U. S. Infantry Brigade. Back in Washington after the War, he operated three small cinema houses while studying for the foreign service at Georgetown...
...King Carol. After four days of gaudy Balkan pageantry, the four sovereigns saw priests break crosswise into four chunks a holy slava cake (plain white flour and yeast) in King Alexander's incense-filled Court Chapel. Digging a hole in each chunk with knives, the priests poured red wine into the holes, after which Royalty and Priest drank the wine and kissed each other. According to Jugoslav Orthodox custom, Guests Boris and loanna thus became figuratively "of the same family" with Host Alexander and Hostess Marie. Too scandalized to protest was the Vatican, which protested vigorously but in vain...
...militarists mean "the big war" (see p. 36). In Ambassador Saito they will have a spokesman who can laugh as meaningfully as President Roosevelt himself. In many of the world's capitals "Saito parties" are familiar to the diplomatic set. There is always plenty of rice wine and champagne, plenty of Scotch whiskey, plenty of noise. A great hostess, Mrs. Saito is a daughter of the Court Physician of Japan's greatest Emperor, the late Meiji...