Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little man with the straw hat, the walking stick and the boutonniere emerged from Boston's State House, a cheer went up for "the greatest Italian of them all." Charles ("Get-Rich-Quick") Ponzi shrugged off the compliment. "No," he admitted, "Columbus and Marconi were greater. Columbus discovered America, Marconi discovered the wireless." Hysterical voice from the crowd: "But you discovered money...
Accepting the inevitable, the U.S. last week recognized the military governments of Venezuela and El Salvador. Before doing so, the State Department had gone about as far as it could to discourage power-hungry army men elsewhere in Latin America. At the order of President Truman (TIME, Jan. 10), it had put off the Venezuelan recognition for two months. But when it asked other Latin American governments for advice, their almost unanimous answer was, in effect: "Face the unpleasant facts...
Elena is expected back in Vienna this spring. After reading her notices last week, she was not entirely sure. Said she: "I have come to love America already...
After his first Broadway show, See America First, flopped in 1916, he decided to see Europe again. He joined a war relief agency, then the French Foreign Legion, and was in a French artillery outfit on the western front...
...three years, pro football's civil war had raged hot & heavy. Last week, seeing victory in sight, the bosses of the old and established National Football League met in Chicago's Blackstone Hotel and ordered up drinks. They waited calmly for the young and struggling All-America...