BRAZIL: Prestes & Hoover

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A quiet chat had President Hoover recently with his good and 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...

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