Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faculty Committee appointed last spring to consider new combination fields of concentration has met this fall and entertained several schemes submitted to it from various departments, Chairman Arthus S. Pease, professor of Latin, and Walter Channing Cabot, Fellow, said yesterday...
...projects, studies, conferences. An Inter-American cultural conference ended on a note of far-reaching program-planning. In Guatemala City, Treasury representatives of the 21 Republics met to ponder financial ways & means. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced conclusion of a reciprocal trade agreement with Venezuela (eleventh with a Latin-American nation, 22nd in all), "progress" on new agreements with Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins had his experts meet with Latin-American tourist-bureau chiefs to plot travel increases...
...against this opposition the U. S. Government went swiftly ahead with its preparation of a formula to deal with Latin-American debts. Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight had expressed disgust with the slow operations of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, which, he felt, should long ago have reached an inter-American understanding on the $1,000,000,000 Latin-American bonds held by U. S. citizens...
Variety, show-business trade paper, recently hailed a plan whereby some Pan-American problems might be more easily solved: a tour of South America by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. This proposal agreed with more earthy U. S. citizens' view that what the U. S. needs in Latin America is not bombers as good-will ambassadors, but more characters like Mickey Mouse (El Ratón Miguel...
...rank with The Times of London (which it resembles) or the New York Times. Because of its exhaustive foreign coverage (La Prensa prints probably more cable news than any other daily) it has been called one of the ten greatest newspapers in the world. Beyond question it is Latin America's greatest...