Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC, ABC television). "What Should the Administration Do About the High Cost of Living...
...support; the stability-loving U.S. State Department wants no filibustering in the Caribbean. Besides, the rules of the U.N. and the Pan American system ban direct attacks by any American country against a neighbor. Tacho could also thank the U.S. for the best army in Central America. After the U.S. Marines moved into Nicaragua to protect U.S. interests in the Coolidge administration, they reorganized and trained Nicaragua's army. Before the Marines pulled out in 1933, the crack new Guardia National was the country's police force as well as its army...
...want to treat everybody good," says Tacho, wide-eyed. "I once told F.D.R. about democracy in Central America. Democracy down here is like a baby-and nobody gives a baby everything to eat right away. I'm giving 'em liberty-but in my style. If you give a baby a hot tamale, you'll kill...
...Republic, Nov. 8: "The G.O.P. victory in 1946 reduced the riddle of 1948 pretty largely to 'How much?' rather than 'By whom?' . . . Question asked -us most frequently is 'Does he know it?' referring to Truman's impending defeat; kind-hearted America felt grieved at what she was doing, like disappointing a child at Christmas: it must have made many Truman votes...
...after Pearl Harbor, tall, grizzle-bearded Aristocles Spyrou tried to join the U.S. Army. But he was turned down as too old (56) and so he went back to his duties as Archbishop Athenagoras, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America. Born in a little Greek town under Turkish rule, Athenagoras frequently reminded his U.S. flock of their good fortune. "Just to be here," he would say, "that is happiness...