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...sincerity is the United States' primary need in South America at the present stage of the game. While recognizing the commercial and political advantages of close relations with the "Colossus of the North," most Latin-American states are shy from bitter lessons of the past. This traditional distrust can be undermined only by acquainting the South American with the true nature of this nation, and such an acquaintance can be imparted by no better means than education in domestic colleges...
...half of Iowa, he was beloved "Uncle Henry." His son Henry Cantwell Wallace was a big, frail man who wore himself out as Harding's Secretary of Agriculture in jurisdictional disputes with Herbert Hoover's Department of Commerce. He left his son with a distrust of politics and a dislike of Herbert Hoover so strong that in 1928 Henry III deserted his traditional Republicanism to support Al Smith...
Cordell Hull and his chief's Good Neighbor Policy have notably softened Latin American distrust of the U. S., but the eve of Lima showed that they have by no means removed it. Well organized last week was opposition by the ABC powers (Argentina, Brazil, Chile) and other nations to confirming at Lima the proposals for a Little League of Nations and Little World Court, which Colombia and the Dominican Republic introduced out of friendliness to the U. S. at Buenos Aires two years ago. And toward Franklin Roosevelt's program for Continental Solidarity against Fascism, Latin American...
...businessmen much of the distrust and difficulty of commission regulation arises from the fact that there is much variation in procedure between the agencies, DeNike held. Businessmen also have a "feeling that politics all too often dictates the allegedly judicial decision of such executive agencies," he said...
...something new was loose in the literary world. What it was became only gradually clearer when Cummings published Tulips and Chimneys (1923) and six subsequent volumes of poems. With their peculiar typography, syntax, and use of words, these books struck most first-time readers as wilful puzzlers, made many distrust their own eyes and Poet Cummings...