Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onetime mastermind of the U.S. get-tough-with-Argentina policy. Marshall said he expected to settle that one within ten days. He soon gave evidence of what he meant. The Secretaries of War & Navy had advocated that the U.S. transfer a lot of its military equipment to Canada and Latin America, with the object of 1) nailing down the arms market; 2) standardizing and modernizing equipment throughout the Western Hemisphere; 3) thus bolstering hemispheric defenses...
Braden had objected. Such action, he said, would start an arms race and would put small, democratic Latin American nations at the mercy of bigger, nondemocratic ones...
Last week Secretary Marshall settled the dispute. He backed the War & Navy Departments' recommendations, which were put up to Congress this week. For Spruille Braden, whose Latin American policy has been discredited and abandoned, it was a pointed hint...
...border, both parties did their best. Perón poured drinks for the first Brazilian President to visit his country since Getulio Vargas went to B.A. in 1935. Latin oratory was spilled. When the two Presidents yanked a string to unveil a commemorative plaque, up flew 1,500 Brazilian pigeons painted in the two countries' national colors. For Eva Duarte de Perón, Dutra had a whopping aquamarine brooch encrusted with diamonds...
...three men were selected by the committee on Commencement parts, headed by Mason Hammond '20, associate professor of Greek and Latin and History...