Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington . . . Giving and granting to him in that character all power and authority to do and perform all proper acts, matters and things which may be desirable or necessary for the promotion of relations of friendship, good understanding and harmonious intercourse between our realm and the United States of America...
After eight months in office, Secretary of State Dean Acheson this week made his first comprehensive statement on U.S. policy toward Latin America. To the 700 members and guests of the Pan American Society who heard his speech at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, it seemed more a reiteration of long-established principles than a blueprint...
...pointed to the economic help for Latin America already going forward under the Export-Import Bank and the World Bank, but he reaffirmed the U.S. desire to see "the job ahead . . . done through private initiative." He approved the results of such U.S.-sponsored economic surveys as last winter's Abbink Mission to Brazil, and emphasized the State Department's readiness to send out others like...
Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17, who was engaged to All-America Glenn Davis for eleven months before she gave him back his gold football last June, broke her four-month engagement to William D. Pawley Jr., 28, but kept the 3^-carat diamond ring that she had lightly called, in happier times, a "nice piece...
...Steinberg had drawn a cross-section of a block of walk-up apartments: "modern" studios sandwiched between lead-heavy Jacobean dinettes and cluttered Victorian parlors. His stark plywood chairs were ornamented with fussy crocheted antimacassars, his baby carriages fashioned like battleships. The level-headed modern designer, set loose among America's gingerbread and fake Tudor suburbs and neo-Renaissance row houses, was in danger, according to Steinberg, of having his dearest creations turned into a series of meaningless stylistic mannerisms...