Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer to a question by Carl J. Friedrich, Eaton Professor of Government, on errors in United States policy toward Latin America, the Governor maintained that the United States should not intervene in the internal affairs of any Latin country. The U.S. should have "friendly official relations" with all, but should be "friendlier towards some than others" lest those people under dictatorships get the mistaken impression that the United States condones the rules of dictators...
...retirement of wide-traveling Secretary of State Dulles was almost certain to focus more attention on the Administration's other veteran of the diplomatic travelers' society: Vice President Richard Nixon, who has served as the President's effective personal ambassador in Asia (1956), Africa (1957), Latin America (1958) and Britain (1958). Last week President Eisenhower sharpened the focus by announcing that Nixon and wife Pat will go to Russia for three or four days in July to officiate at the opening of the $5,000,000 American National Exhibition in Moscow's Sokolniki Park (TIME...
...Attempted "new approaches" to the surging neutralist nations of Asia, Africa, Latin America, but failed-over the short run-to convince them that there could be no neutralism in a universal struggle, was less effective in handling crises in which Communism was not directly involved, e.g., his blow-hot, blow-cold performance on U.S. help for Egypt's Aswan...
...Latin Passports. Brother Attilio, returning to Britain as Alfredo's replacement, was promptly sentenced to six months as a pimp. So Carmello and Eugene ran the business from Belgium; using Brazilian and Cuban passports, they traveled from Rome to Paris to Vienna, recruiting new girls. A typical example was pretty Belgian Marie Vernaecke, who was set up in a Mayfair flat, married to a complaisant Englishman to qualify for British citizenship; she earned the brothers around $5,600 a month. Unfortunately, Belgian police caught Carmello and Eugene in a nightclub just as they were closing a deal with...
...English made him turn occasionally to an interpreter, and once he even drew help from a member of the audience. Dean Bundy, who introduced the speaker on behalf of the Law School forum and the University, seemed rather out of place as he shared the elevated platform with the Latin revolutionary and his bearded attendants...