Word: ameri
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ments and agencies had thought up $998,804 worth. Samples : Agriculture can spend $75,000 for a Tropical Forest Experiment Station in Puerto Rico; Treasury, $27,714 to send a Coast Guard patrol boat and one cutter on a demonstration cruise; Library of Congress, $27,200 to show Latin Ameri cans how to use and catalog their libraries, $10,000 to present their 20 Governments with photostats of "fundamental American documents"; Federal Communications Commission, advice on radio problems (free) ; National Emergency Council, two $45,000 propaganda films, one about Latin America for U. S. audiences, the other about...
...outbreak of the war," said Mr. Norton, "we raised the Ameri- can flag on our villa and provided shelter for some of our Spanish neighbors." Said Mrs. Norton: "There is a road up the hill behind our house called 'execution lane,' where dozens of our best friends were shot down like cattle-sometimes because they were Rightists, because they were Catholics, and sometimes because they were gentlemen and ladies. I have seen priests and nuns shot. Nobody was safe. When we finally saw the troops of General Queipo de Llano approaching it was the happiest moment...
Soon several rich Japanese withdrew their deposits from National City's Osaka branch, mobs milled around its doors. branch officials received threatening letters and placards proclaimed: "Patriotic Japanese employes of this spying Ameri can bank must walk out in a body!" The new U. S. Ambassador to Japan is alert, athletic, slightly deaf Josef Clark Grew, kinsman of John Pierpont Morgan, whose last post was Turkey. Mr. Grew stood for no nonsense in Tokyo. Laconically he cabled to the State Department : "The recent affair of the Osaka branch of the National City Bank of New York which is subjected...
...Racketeering has manifested itself in many lines. There are no doubt some who have fastened themselves upon the Ameri can labor movement and are exploiting hardworking, honest members. Upon these leeches we will have no mercy...
...besets all Gypsies. Spaniards filled a Manhattan theatre for his debut, shouted so loudly that he and the two girls with him repeated nearly everything they did. Escudero strutted about like a cock, clicking his heels and tapping his toes through dances loosely designed. His conversational castanet-playing impressed Ameri cans most. He barked with them brutally, whispered insinuatingly. For the end of one dance he snapped a fingernail accompaniment...