Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginia lady of formidable presence, and her convivial, raucous daughter-in-law, Evalyn Walsh McLean, who died in 1947. Evalyn wore a diamond (the Hope) as big as a tiger's eye, and called men impartially "darlin' boy." At her crowded parties (at the old and new "Friendship"), men had to bring their brains with them; Evalyn delighted in pairing mortal enemies at dinner. Said an old friend, admiringly: "Evalyn had spite...
...Washington's white-marbled Pan American Union building last week, frock-coated representatives of Nicaragua and Costa Rica squiggled their signatures on a treaty of friendship. The treaty ended ten weeks of bickering over the invasion of Costa Rica from Nicaragua; it also symbolized the eclipse of the Caribbean Legion. In Nicaragua, Dictator "Tacho" Somoza celebrated the occasion by knocking off work on his sugar refinery (the country's largest) now abuilding on his Pacific coast barony at Montelimar...
...relation to the U.S.I. and to the Netherlands. Fearing to unlcash the Republic altogether lost it decide against inclusion later on, the Dutel, demanded strict control of its military and foreign affairs. After two years of independent administration, the Republicans were unwilling to compromise and began to court the friendship of India and the Arab States. Within four months, the Dutch resorted to military measures to remedy an "intolerable situation...
Twelve Nights in a Club. The Pyramid Friendship Club game had swept east to Detroit from Southern California. The clubs operate like chain letters, but with one notable exception-to avoid using the mails, members meet and exchange money at nightly parties...
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, American League for Peace & Democracy, American Youth for Democracy (see EDUCATION), Civil Rights Congress, Council for Pan-American Democracy, Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, National Committee to Win the Peace, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, National Federation for Constitutional Liberties...