Word: interring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other Latin American capitals, officials talked of reopening the Argentine question at the Inter-American Conference in Rio de Janeiro next October. In Washington, it was rumored that Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes would withdraw Ambassador Braden from Buenos Aires as a slap at the Argentine militarists, make him Undersecretary of State. From Washington, too, came a report that the U.S. has already ordered its first economic sanction against Argentina: in the future, Argentine ships may not use the Panama Canal. Reason: their two vessels a month overtax the Canal...
...last week's intermittent rains, the Freshman and NROTC baseball leagues have racked up only one official contest apiece. Last Tuesday Company One's Gray shut out the Company Three nine 6 to 0 in a one sided five-inning battle, while on the previous Thursday in a Fresh inter-House contest Smith rolled over Standish 5 to 3 behind the able pitching of Hutchins. Freshman softball has been irregular due to a light turnout...
...young officer, he was not distinguished. In 1923 he was sent to the Philippines-an assignment memorable chiefly because on the way he met and (in Corregidor) married Dade Embick. (Her father, now Lieut. General Stanley D. Embick, is chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board...
Another important step of the present administration has been the establishment of the University Professorships, aimed at the accomplishment of the third goal of the Conant policies, inter-departmental unity and cooperation. Under this system, leading men in the University are given roving professorships, under which they are permitted to give any courses and undertake any research they wish...
...TIME'S only subscriber on Raiatea, a high green island just 120 miles 'northwest of Tahiti, and ever since Pearl Harbor he has been getting anywhere from 12 to 16 issues of our Overseas Edition the same day-by steamer from San Francisco to Tahiti, by little inter-island schooner from Tahiti to Raiatea. And when the mail comes...