Word: abroad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard has come Brazil's first appeal for intellectual friendship. Through its consul in Boston, it has offered to establish an institute for the study of Brazilian art, literature, music and Portugese. The professors and the library will be supplied from abroad, but the University will have complete control of administration...
Immediate effect of this historic Roosevelt document was to cut the ground from under all previous thinking and talking about his foreign policy (see p. 13). It clarified once & for all the fact that Franklin Roosevelt positively expected war abroad unless some one's will-to-peace, as well as "the arms of the Democracies, was stronger than the Dictators' will-to-war. It tended to absolve Franklin Roosevelt from previous charges of "war-mongering." Whether or not his invitation was accepted-and his ten-year clause made acceptance look impossible-it kept open the way to some...
...Angeles was not yet mad enough at Hitler to want to fight him abroad, but anger was rising. The big, sprawling metropolis ("seven suburbs in search of a city") seemed not really concerned about the war threat. Europe is a long way from Los Angeles...
...worth of facts & figures the cinema industry could buy last week was a 377-page review of foreign film markets during 1938, issued by the U. S. Department of Commerce. Most comforting figures: despite censorship bans and trade barriers in authoritarian countries, Hollywood lost only 6% of its market abroad, still ruled the 1938 roost by supplying 65% of all the films shown in the world's cinemas. Most disturbing fact: in Esthonia, esthetic censors banned several Hollywood films for mere banality...
While the nation pondered these prosaic devices to protect it from disaster brewing abroad, up popped a trial balloon for a scheme far from prosaic. The balloonist: William Stix Wasserman, a big, self-assured Philadelphian...