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...statement: stocks on the New York 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...
...moneyed friend Eugene Meyer Jr. The weather was becoming warm. Mrs. Meyer would perhaps be hastening a trifle her departure to the Meyer country estate. This would leave the Meyer mansion in Washington free to serve as house and home for four days to President-elect Julio Prestes of Brazil who arrived in Washington last week with his gay and handsome son Fernando...
Brazilians would not have been surprised had President Hoover vacated his White House, installed the Prestes therein. When Mr. Hoover as President-elect visited Rio de Janeiro* hospitable President Washington Luis of Brazil moved out of his official residence, Guanabara Palace, and in for 60 hours moved Mr. & Mrs. Hoover. Last week U. S. servants at the Meyer mansion were informed that they must not ascend to the second floor, where the President-elect, dynamic, Rooseveltian, big-boned, occupied Mrs. Meyer's pink-draped bedroom. The Prestes' own Brazilian "man" served his master's frugal breakfasts ? with emphasis...
Popular Prestes. Not since the visit of Ramsay MacDonald & Daughter Ishbel has socialite Washington been so favorably impressed as it was by Julio Prestes & Son Fernando. With affable dignity they ably represented the 20 United States of Brazil, almost as populous as the islands of which Mr. MacDonald is Prime Minister, and 258,530 sq. mi. larger than the 48 states of which Mr. Hoover is President...
...official speech of welcome Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, notorious for being late on all occasions, wisecracked: "I concede to you. Sir, the championship which heretofore has been bestowed on me." Hearing the Tammanyites guffaw, President-elect Prestes laughed politely, though he does not speak English. In Brazil, where public greetings are taken seriously and must embody the flower of courtesy, such a "joke" would have been an insult and President-elect Prestes, understanding, might not have laughed...