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...Another document temporarily lost at the White House last week was China's inquiry about Farm Board wheat (see p. 11). The State Department said the message had gone to the White House. There a "stated official source"-that is, the Hoover secretariat which has replaced the "White House spokesman" since the President plugged news leaks-denied its receipt. Later the Chinese inquiry turned up, somehow, at the Farm Board...
...general manager of Grain Stabilization Corp. is official custodian for some 200,000,000 bu. of U. S. wheat. There he was greeted by suave, dark Ambassador Rinaldo de Lima e Silva. After exchanging amenities, they sat down together at a table, squiggled their names to a document. When they got up and shook hands, the U. S. had contracted to trade Brazil 25,000,000 bu. of wheat for 1,050,000 bags of Sao Paulo coffee...
...rebellious Hungary had been subdued by Austria with the help of Nicholas I of Russia, in 1849. As the elder Szalay had been a rebel, had served after his capture only to evade imprisonment, that diploma remained his "shame." To his sons he used to say, pointing to the document, "You must do something good for the Hungarian people to wipe out my disgrace...
...Encyclical Letter of His Holiness, Pius XI, by Divine Providence Pope"?thus last week began a document which was spirited out of the Papal State, past Italy's eagle-eyed frontier guards, and so to Paris. For this dramatic exploit the Holy See employed a young priest, modest, inconspicuous...
Solemnly Doumer faced Doumergue. In one minute flat the retiring President made his speech of welcome. In one minute flat the new President replied. Both then signed a document which officially transferred the Presidential Mandate. But that...