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...shark net at Fort Amur's beach). But in between festivities they labored hard on this intensification of the Monroe Doctrine, this deliberate abandonment of the freedom of the seas. At Sumner Welles's announcement of definite financial aid, proving the solidity of U. S. intentions, Latin-American diplomats leaped. Shortly...
...Secretaries. The Council members follow: Joseph A. Wyant, Winthrop, president; William F. Pennebaker, Leverett, vice-president; Dean R. Noyes, Dunster; Harold Glickman, Dudley; George Dana, Eliot, George B. Lyons, Kirkland; Edmund J. Docring, Lowell; William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics; Clarence H. Haring, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics and Master of Dunster House, and Samborski...
...America would sell at hot prices all the raw materials which had lain fallow and unproductive in the past decade. War would wipe out with one black stroke all the hobbling economic nostrums of dictators-depreciated currencies, frozen gold stocks, exchange controls, restricted imports, excessive taxation. Effects on various Latin-American countries...
Bolivia, not quite over the shock of losing its dictator, half-German Germán Busch, by suicide (Time, Sept. 4), was the only Latin-American country to get the jitters. It restricted imports, curtailed gold shipments, prohibited speculation. But its tin and copper were expected to boom...
...more fuss than anything in radio since Mae West. In permitting stations to sell advertising time on their short-wave broadcasts to Latin America and other foreign parts, FCC inserted a provision that the programs "shall render only an international broadcast service which will reflect the culture of this country and which will promote international good will, understanding and cooperation." Behind the provision, Washington observers felt, was the State Department's Good-Neighborly tact toward Latin-American autocrats. But broadcasters promptly protested what looked like a short-wave shortcut to direct censorship...