Word: inter-american
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...committee on Pan-American relations, directed by Ross A. McFarland, professor of Industrial Research, will stimulate the study of inter-American trade relations, the extension of teaching of Spanish and Portuguese, an increase in the number of exchange students and professors, and the extending of hospitality to Latin-American visitors. A second committee headed by E. Merrick Dodd, professor of Law, has been created to study the problem of labor disputes in defense industries, and a third on youth problems, jointly led by William S. McCauley, instructor in Government, and Alan Gottlieb '41, former president of the Liberal Union...
...many a complacent U. S. citizen, Nelson Rockefeller's investigation of Nazis in Latin America has seemed little short of a witch hunt. One reason is that the Inter-American Coordinator of Commercial and Cultural Relations named no names, preferred to work quietly. He merely said there was evidence that many a U. S. company, often unknowingly, had an "anti-American" (i.e., Nazi) for agent below the Rio Grande, suggested replacement by men friendly to the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 20). But last week to TIME'S Texas Bureau Chief Holland McCombs came reports from Mexico which gave...
That Night in Rio (20th Century-Fox) provides a parallelogram in inter-American relations. A U. S. nightclub entertainer (Don Ameche) is romancing a Brazilian cutie (Carmen Miranda) who performs in the same show. Patrons of the nightclub are Baron Duarte (also Don Ameche) a rich Brazilian broker and his pretty, plumpish wife (Alice Faye). When their quadrangular paths intersect, the foursome gets its identities tangled, temporarily crosses its affections. The complications, jealousies and comedy which accompany this Technicolored treatise on Pan-American flirtation are highly significant diplomatically. That Night in Rio is the first rose tossed by Hollywood...
...Ecuador for its segment of Inter-American highway $1,000,000, an additional $150,000 to fight a cocoa worm...
...Nicaragua, $2,000,000 for its section of the Inter-American highway...