Word: americans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Orchids to Ted Malone for his reputed defrosting of U. S. wives. It should be said, however, that to millions of American women Mr. Malone's lush whisperings are merely emetic...
This must be the French cousin of our story. Or is ours the American version of the French story? Is there an English cousin? Will this story pop up wherever Hitler's mere existence is a blight or a threat? It is almost a folk tale already. I should like to hear further news...
...this same spirit, Washington last week was a welter of Pan-American projects, studies, conferences. An Inter-American cultural conference ended on a note of far-reaching program-planning. In Guatemala City, Treasury representatives of the 21 Republics met to ponder financial ways & means. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced conclusion of a reciprocal trade agreement with Venezuela (eleventh with a Latin-American nation, 22nd in all), "progress" on new agreements with Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins had his experts meet with Latin-American tourist-bureau chiefs to plot travel increases...
...against this opposition the U. S. Government went swiftly ahead with its preparation of a formula to deal with Latin-American debts. Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight had expressed disgust with the slow operations of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, which, he felt, should long ago have reached an inter-American understanding on the $1,000,000,000 Latin-American bonds held by U. S. citizens...
Variety, show-business trade paper, recently hailed a plan whereby some Pan-American problems might be more easily solved: a tour of South America by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. This proposal agreed with more earthy U. S. citizens' view that what the U. S. needs in Latin America is not bombers as good-will ambassadors, but more characters like Mickey Mouse (El Ratón Miguel...