Word: armours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trying to be neutral in an almost totally unneutral world. Acting President Castillo said so again last week: "Argentina will continue to maintain neutrality in the European war." It was significant that the No. 1 Argentine should refer to the World War as European. Replied U.S. Ambassador Nor man Armour (in a speech to the Buenos Aires English Club) : "Between those who destroy the law and those who observe it there is no admissible neutrality." The decision was a desperately difficult one for Argentina to make. In no free country was the economic outlook bleaker or the contrast sharper between...
Engaged. Norman Armour Jr., 21, Princeton junior, only child of U.S. Ambassador to the Argentine Norman ("The Ideal Diplomat") Armour; and Cynthia Sewell Burrage, 19, granddaughter of the late multimillionaire Boston copper king Albert Cameron Burrage; in Boston...
...London's vital outpost, the Ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's, he prepared to send no blundering politico but one of the ablest career diplomats in the Foreign Service, shrewd, handsome Norman Armour, now Ambassador to Argentina. Mr. Armour's record was a quick index to his ability: posts at Paris (twice). Petrograd, Brussels, The Hague, Montevideo, Rome. Tokyo, Port-au-Prince, Ottawa, Santiago. Buenos Aires, Washington...
...talking, the Foreign Ministers of Argentina and Uruguay announced their deal last week, no mention was made of the U. S. Neighboring countries (presumably Brazil, Paraguay, probably Bolivia and Chile) will be invited to participate in the plans. The U. S. stayed out of the picture, but Ambassador Norman Armour and Foreign Minister Roca have recently had long heart-to-heart talks. Last week the U. S. lent Argentina $60,000,000. Before the bases are built, the U. S. will most probably lend technical assistance-as well as money...
...Canadian $5 gold piece on his watch chain. He felt the tailhead of Canadian-bred Shorthorn and U. S.-bred Hereford, poked ribs, chest, shoulders like a house guest poking the guest bed mattress. He tipped his hat forward, tipped it back. He held a whispered consultation with Armour & Co.'s portly old Colonel Edward Norris Wentworth, perennial ringmaster of livestock shows, who apparently gave him no help...