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...Price of Pride In Washington last week the Inter-American Defense Board, created by vote of the Conference of Foreign Ministers at Rio, got down to brass tacks, began to arrange convoys for those Latin American countries whose rupture of diplomatic relations with the Axis powers had led to submarine reprisals on their shipping. As 55-day voyages from U.S. ports to Bombay and Suez cut Allied tonnage on Latin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Price of Pride | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...OCIAA (Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs), Nelson Rockefeller's agency, works on cultural, political and commercial relations with Latin America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: The Begats | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...international broadcasts, the receiving country seldom helps to prepare the programs it receives, but five Brazilians last week reached Manhattan for just that purpose. Their chief object: to assist the Rockefeller Committee (Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs) in getting up a daily radio program for Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help from Brazil | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

Every year 300,000 youngsters go through the painful and costly ordeal of having their crooked teeth clamped into braces to be straightened. Last week in New Orleans the men who make the braces, the Inter-American Orthodontic Congress, met to discuss new ways of clamping down on unruly young teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Teeth Straighteners | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...been an art patron, six-goal polo player, owner of a famed racing stable, board chairman of Freeport Sulphur Co., backer of Gone With the Wind and stage hit Life With Father; he is now a dollar-a-year man with his friend Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Married to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus in 1930, he was divorced in 1940, paid a reported $3,000,000 alimony. Blonde Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, daughter of late famed Surgeon Harvey W. Gushing, also was married in 1930, also got her divorce from Captain Jimmy Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 9, 1942 | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

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