Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, Morris Sheppard (who outranks John Garner by a half-year in length of uninterrupted Congressional tenure) heads the committees on Commerce, Military Affairs and (to the New Deal's recent embarrassment) Campaign Expenditures. Senator Tom Connally has Public Buildings & Grounds and is influential on Finance, Foreign Relations, Judiciary, Privileges & Elections...
That would please no one more than the Vargas Government, because in practice the Germans, to get foreign exchange, have ruthlessly resold in other markets the coffee and cocoa they got from Brazil by barter, depressing prices at the expense of Brazil's best cash crops. One quick effect of the deal was felt in Wall Street, where Brazilian 1941 8's jumped from...
Among dozens of ideas about how the U. S. should conduct its foreign relations, there is at least one policy on which nearly all citizens agree. It is a policy now 115 years old, first expressed in the Monroe Doctrine: The Americas must belong only to North and South Americans. For most of the 115 years, U. S. policy has been confined mainly to the negative side of this doctrine, keeping foreign nations out. Recently Pan American conferences, the "Good Neighbor Policy," etc. have attempted to give it some positive substance. Last week in Washington a concrete step was taken...
...revolutionary coup d'état by the two powerful leaders of the State of Rio Grande do Sul: dressy little Getulio Vargas and his backer and right-hand man, handsome, dashing Oswaldo Aranha. Vargas as President, Aranha as Ambassador to the U. S. and later as Foreign Minister, have been Latin America's most consistently friendly apostles of the U. S. and its works...
...break down its bars against the shipment of foreign exchange out of Brazil, which has played into the hands of the Nazi barter program...