Word: latinities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July last year the League of Nations had received six unwelcome letters from six Latin American countries-Costa Rica, Brazil, Paraguay, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras-announcing their withdrawal from the League. Since withdrawal is provided for in the League's Covenant it must be accepted, and automatically takes effect two years after notice has been given...
...Chicago at 15 to enter school, got through eight grades in a year. He joined the Canadian Royal Fusiliers, saw service in the Near East, returned to the U. S. to study at the University of Pennsylvania, become an Episcopal minister. A radical, David Colony was assigned to teach Latin at swank Episcopal Academy and assist in a church at Rosemont, both on the Main Line and both cool to his notions. Transferred to more congenial, lower-class parishes in Philadelphia suburbs. Rector Colony established a barter system for the unemployed, a "school of the poor for the poor" which...
...London, Heralds' College announced that new Earl Baldwin, formerly Prime Minister had chosen for his coat of arms the Latin motto "With the help of my God I leap over the wall," had further chosen as the supporters of his arms not the lion & unicorn but two white owls, symbolic of wisdom...
...were the Chinese "of great leisure and extremely strong nerves," who, despite their screaming anti-Japanese" banners everywhere, treated her with unfailing courtesy. Her concluding thought was that the Chinese "seem to be likely to inherit the earth and go on forever, while the Japanese, Italians and other Latin peoples go neurotic and mad, followed by the English...
...worst default area is Latin America, which accounts for more than one-half of all dollar bonds in default. Approximately 75% of the $1,500,000,000 worth of Latin American dollar bonds outstanding have gone sour in some degree. Only country with unblemished standing in this area of blighted credit is Haiti, which was, in effect, thrown into receivership by the U. S. Marines in the days of Woodrow Wilson. The neighboring Dominican Republic which also received ministrations from the U. S. Marines, has kept up on interests but is behind on sinking fund payments. In national credit standing...