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...second cruiser (the new, 10,000-ton Wichita) to Latin-American waters in the wake of the Quincy. Chief of Staff George C. Marshall gravely warned a House committee that the Regular Army and the National Guard should be prepared to sustain friendly regimes in Latin America (Brazil, Uruguay, Ecuador), possibly "within a month or two." Discussed was a plan to set up a great Latin-American trade corporation, to be financed by the U. S. and to act as a buffer between a German-Italian Europe and the Americas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs, Jun. 17, 1940 | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

From Puerto Rico to Chile, from Ecuador to Hawaii, to the Gunther boys in Buenos Aires, to Claude Hannibal out at sea the word went: "Foxy Grampa says Roy Bernard's gonna be O.K. . . . Fine . . . fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Foxy Grampa | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...having even discussed the disappearance of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia or Poland,† it could check anything at this late date. But a novel project was nevertheless afoot. With Argentina as their spokesman, the six South American nations still remaining in the League (Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador) demanded that the Soviet Union be expelled and threatened to resign unless the League kicked the Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Expulsion or Condemnation? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Aurelio Mosquera Narvaez, 56, physician-President (the 21st) of the Republic of Ecuador, supporter of economic cooperation with the U. S.; after less than a year in office, of pneumonia, following an emergency operation; in Quito, Ecuador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...during NRA days as vendors of tear gas and machine guns to corporations involved in labor difficulties. Senator Nye's Munitions Committee and Senator La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee both investigated Mr. Young. Choice reports to Young publicized by the Committees: from Missionary Brother Paul in Ecuador, "Indian work . . . needs a great deal of prayer. Yesterday I saw the Minister of War again and made arrangements to demonstrate. . . ." From a Los Angeles salesman, "I think someone should get out a restraining order on the President of the United States to prevent him from stopping all of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: War Babies | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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