Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...represents the first enlightened approach to Latin American diplomacy in over two centuries. Under that policy, the United States has declined to intervene in internicine affairs and has respected the political autonomy of its Caribbean neighbors. Action by the State Department in the Chaco war and in the Machado fiasco was taken only after careful consultation with the leading powers of the southern hemisphere. The Rooseveltian repudiation of the Socony-United Fruit-Chase National policies of Hoover and Coolidge has won favor throughout Hispanic America. It has paved the way for the extremely lucrative reciprocal tariff agreements with Brazil...
...Future Wars brings the movement to a point where the undergraduate body must recognize its significance as a powerful force of propaganda; a type of propaganda, which, of peculiar nature, is as yet untried. Yet because of that peculiar nature it can be easily side-tracked into a miserable fiasco. Such a failure would bitterly justify the paternal comment that "the kids are just playing the parts of Harlequins...
...lush jungle nation ruled by King Lobengula. As Premier, he next tries to get Transvaal, ruled by the Boers, sole white rivals to English supremacy. Foiled by the stolid smugness of Boer President Oom Paul Kruger (Oscar Homolka), Rhodes allows himself to be persuaded into using force. The resulting fiasco of "Jameson's Raid" forces him to resign all his high positions, lose his virtual dictatorship. Unbowed by defeat, he admits the wrong, dies quietly just as the Boer War is bringing true the Union of South Africa he always sought...
...curtain rang down on the regular season for 1935. Next day Stanford invited Southern Methodist to the Rose Bowl. Southern Methodist lost no time accepting. No team is ever more uneasy about Yale than Princeton. Taking no chances of a repetition of last year's fiasco, a coolheaded, well-disciplined Princeton eleven began by modestly kicking a field goal. Their first touchdown was made by Jack White at the end of the first half, after Pepper Constable seemed to have given the ball to everybody else on the Princeton team. Then in the fourth period, the Tigers opened...
...been a stiff battle to give Chicago opera since the Samuel Insull fiasco in the spring of 1932. Following winter there was no one to pick up the pieces and the house stayed dark. Then up popped Paul Longone who offered to be artistic director, help raise money. Backers for the first reorganized season were Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. which controls the building, scenery, lights; the late George Lytton (Hub clothing store); Banker George Woodruff; Lawyer George Haight; Harold Fowler McCormick. who is always a willing patron for opera in Chicago. Deficit that first season was only...