Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S reporting of the New York County Medical Society's meetings (TIME, March 27) was anything but factual. TIME stated that "for months [Dr. Kopetzky] has been denouncing the National Health Program as 'a foreign importation,' " when as a matter of fact Dr. Kopetzky has been consistently opposed to Compulsory Health Insurance, not to the Health Program as a whole...
...corned beef at less than 16?^ per lb., nearly 8? under the nearest U. S. bidder, 14? under after deduction of 6? duty. To correspondents Mr. Roosevelt declared that he did not know why South American corned beef was "infinitely better" than that from the U. S. prairies, unless foreign cows are just naturally better tasting than U. S. cows.f If correspondents did not believe him, he said, let them try a can of Argentine beef on their next camping trip...
...cattlemen and their spokesmen in Congress exploded with indignation at this Presidential statement. In Argentina whose frozen (but not corned) beef has been kept out of the U. S. on the grounds that the country harbors hoof & mouth disease, his words were acclaimed. Said Argentine Foreign Minister Jose Cantilo in Buenos Aires : "A fine gesture ! ... An important precedent in friendly relations...
While Senator O'Mahoney and his western colleagues are sputtering to the press for the benefit of friends back home, the State Department is quietly proceeding with its plan to "feed the navy on foreign beef." Argentina offers a product at 9 cents; American producers ask 23 cents; the navy begins to buy from Argentina. Obviously a subversive and un-American transaction. . . standard of living doomed . . . Japan; now Argentina. But more important than the patent stupidity involved in such typical protectionist reasoning is the fact that such Congressional utterances constitute destructive opposition to the far-reaching policy of Pan-Americanism...
Marriage disclosed. Henry M. Blackmer, onetime Midwest Refining Co. head, fugitive from the U. S. since 1924, when he was wanted as witness in the Teapot Dome investigation; to Eide Norena, Norwegian soprano; in Paris. The French Foreign Office, fearing to offend the U. S., has withheld citizenship from Blackmer but let him go on living in Paris after his U. S. passport expired...