Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University will offer no courses in Latin American history next year, following the departure of Thomas F. McGann '41, assistant professor of History, it was learned yesterday...
Before a standing-room-only audience of newsmen in Washington's National Press Club, Vice President Richard Nixon spoke for far-reaching revision.* Said Nixon: "What we must do is to show that when private enterprise and the United States come into Latin America, we do so not for the purpose of simply keeping in power the elite." He deprecated U.S. diplomats who concentrated on "white-tie dinners," adding that "the universities and the labor movement [are] the wave of the future." Do we leave the field to the Communists? If we do, said Nixon, "we are going...
...heard. Nixon planned a confidential report to the President and a public one to the nation. Dr. Milton Eisenhower said he still planned to make his study tour of Central America, tentatively set for June 15. A Senate subcommittee would soon start taking a long look into Latin American relations...
...Latino press, Nixon's stand for revision was enough to transform him into a hemisphere hero. Said Caracas' El National: "Nixon [did] not lose sight of the vast problems of Latin America, which have nothing to do with Communism, and Nixon has moved a large section of North American opinion." Said the Mexico City weekly Siempre: "We stand with Mr. Nixon...
...Edinburgh, and Andrew Bell, an engraver of dog collars, who stood 4½ ft. tall, and had a nose so embarrassingly big that he used to mock his mockers with an even larger one of papier-mache. Smellie, their 28-year-old choice for editor, spieled long Latin poems when drunk, and was celebrated as "a veteran in wit, genius and bawdry...