Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Latin Class...
TIME'S reporter on People (TIME, July 3, p. 28) should go back to his Latin class. The point of the Oxford University orator's pun, in presenting Justice Frankfurter for the D.C.L., was that instead of quoting the poet correctly-Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas-he said reorum, changing the poet's "things" into the more appropriate "legal arguments...
...blame attaches to TIME'S excellent translator; but to TIME'S printer, a ferule-rap for cold-bloodedly murdering the Emperor's Latin...
...little brown bandit who ruled the Dominican Republic as President from 1930 to 1938. He then refused a third term "following United States precedent" and now rules instead as generalissimo of the army. He was much put out this past year as he watched the parade of other Latin-American strongmen to Washington: Cuba's Batista, Nicaragua's Somoza, Brazil's Aranha and Monteiro (TIME, Nov. 14, et seq.). All these received official invitations, were saluted, handshaken, welcomed at the White House. But for Dictator Trujillo, no invitation came...
...February 1936, the temporary neutrality law was extended with two major changes. Belligerents were denied the privilege of floating loans in the U. S. and exceptions were made for wars in Latin America. The Italians, undisturbed, destroyed the Ethiopians, and the U. S. was never sucked into the holocaust...