Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about one of America's all-time greats: Herbert Clark Hoover...
...consultation with other friendly governments have to recognize the facts." He thought that the military occupation of Japan should be ended as quickly as possible and a peace treaty drawn up, with Canada participating. One of his most significant remarks touched on Canada's relations with Latin America. Said Pearson: "We should broaden and deepen our association with the Latin republics of this hemisphere." That was the nearest any cabinet minister had ever come to saying that Canada should join the Pan-American Union...
...newest U.S. envoy to Latin America is urbane, white-haired Irving Florman, 53, a New York inventor and manufacturer, whose appointment as ambassador to Bolivia was announced in Washington last week by President Truman...
...career diplomat, Florman is president of the Cleevelandt Corp., manufacturers of scientific and mechanical devices. Born in Poland, naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1917, he has traveled widely but has never been to South America. His only previous contact with diplomacy has been rather remote: he designed an ornate lighter which President Roosevelt gave to Premier Joseph Stalin at Yalta...
Tony Lavelli, Yale's All-America 1948, 49 basketball star who turned down several pro offers in order to get on with his career as musician and composer, finally signed up with the Boston Celtics at $15,000 a season when they wrote an unusual clause into his contract: between halves he will be allowed to play his accordion for the customers...