Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...normally retires next June, the most important man in the U. S. Navy is Franklin Roosevelt. Because the President has made it so, an important area in the Navy's world just now is South America. A very present possibility for the Navy is revolution inspired by European totalitarians and therefore, by the terms of Franklin Roosevelt's hemisphere defense, to be prevented or suppressed by U. S. arms. In Navy thinking, most likely spot for such a police job is Brazil, whose Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha last week assured the U. S. that it need...
Asserting baldly that 1,000 European physicians, mostly Germans, are entering the U. S. every year, Medical Economics stated that foreign doctors are "coming in droves" to the U. S., painted a gloomy picture of unrestricted immigration, unfair competition of emigres with American doctors and low standards of medical treatment...
Against Medical Economics stands the opinion of several hundred of the most eminent physicians in the U. S., who have formed committees in several large cities to help their unfortunate colleagues. During the next three years, say these physicians, no more than 2,500 European physicians will come to settle in the U. S. and the U. S. is certainly large enough to absorb them. Many of these men are outstanding scientists, and will contribute greatly to the progress of American medicine...
...having the devil's own time making itself heard anywhere at all. The villains outshouting her are three, and the loudest of these is Klaipeda, in Lithuania. Klaipeda's station LYY, a radio holdout, has steadfastly refused to join the Union Internationale de Radiodiffusion, which assigns European broadcasting frequencies, and broadcasts loudly and persistently on Erin's assigned frequency. Officially assigned on the same frequency are Palermo and Catania, Italy. With all three going at once in opposition, all England usually hears of Radio-Eireann is an occasional bit of brogue breaking through a great and garlicky...
...Dutch, his second White Russian, his third a pro-Nazi German. In 1937, after his third marriage, he retired from the directorship of Royal Dutch-Shell. At 70, worth $200,000,000, he was still ruddy, still sharp-eyed, still apoplectic in his hates, still pulling strings behind the European scene...