Word: inter-american
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...this does not include the names of 14 other employees who resigned their jobs for the duration to do special work for the OFF, COI, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and other government bureaus and agencies. Nor does it include correspondents Carl and Shelley Mydans, who were taken prisoner by the Japs and interned at Santo Tomas University in the Philippines (we have just received the cheering news that they were recently transferred to Shanghai, where the first thing Shelley did was to hunt up a hairdresser...
Outstanding figures were Chile's President, Juan Antonio Ríos; Foreign Minister Barros Jarpa; Chilean Public Health Minister Dr. Miguel Etchebarne (Congress president); Osvald Stein of the International Labor Office in Montreal; and Guest Nelson Rockefeller of the U.S. They convened as the first Inter-American Conference on Social Security...
...Anton de Haas, Professor of International Relations at the Business School, has been in Bogota, Colombia, where he is aiding the local authorities in preparing plans for a college of business administration. To carry on this important duty, Professor de Haas was appointed Special Consultant of the Coordinator of Inter-American affairs...
...discovered Publisher Smyth's colleague, Canadian-born Walker Grey Matheson, 40, last week in Nelson Rockefeller's Office of Inter-American Affairs. He was writing short-wave broadcasts about the Far East for Latin America. Agent Matheson, who had gone to school in Hawaii, Peking, Shanghai, Rangoon, Tokyo, the Universities of Nevada, California and Mexico, knew the Japs well. In 1937, charged the FBI, they hired him to spy on the U.S. Communist Party. Boastful of his long friendship with Emperor Hirohito, he had taught philosophy at New York City's Queens College. As chief hack...
...Nelson Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, got $10,000,000 from RFC to build 100 wooden sailing vessels for the Latin American trade (TIME, June...