Word: latin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American International Airways (U. S.) sent its flagplane Southern Star down the west coast from Panama to Santiago, demonstrating to Latin-Americans that an-other U. S. line might compete in that territory...
...expected from passenger transport over the tedious distances between U. S. and South American business centres. It still takes weeks to travel between the two continents by watership. Buenos Aires is 18 days from New York, Valparaiso 21 days. Distance has retarded U. S. exploitation and participation in Latin-American enterprises more than have differences in culture and language. National City and Chase National banks of Manhattan have already ventured into South America extensively. Officials of such banks and of industries with similar foreign enterprise will, the aviation companies confidently expect, travel often to South America so soon as transportation...
...reservation, if made at all, to be in the form of a separate announcement, noted and communicated to the U. S. apart from the Mellon-Berenger plan. The Opposition was immovable, clung to its reservation. Inflated with temporary success they waited a chance for a test of strength. With Latin complexity, a crisis was built up which had nothing to do with the merits of the reservation, very little to do with the debt...
...received his diploma from Viscount Grey of Falloden, Chancellor of the University, statesman, bird-lover, fly-caster. In presenting the diploma Viscount Grey recited a long discourse in Latin ripe with many a classical pun. Myopic, he could not read the speech, was forced to memorize it. Toward the end his memory failed...
...majority of Mexicans call it a "dignified compromise." Dissenting were the radical anti-clerics. They protest that it is a world defeat for the forces of Liberalism. An unnamed politician said: "The Roman Church will strengthen its hold, especially on the Latin-American countries, which are watching Mexico's test and are anxious to follow her example . . . to free themselves from the yoke of the clergy...