Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from the civic principle involved, President Hoover has long felt that military occupation of Nicaragua damaged U. S. prestige in the rest of Latin America and created sales resistance to U. S. trade. To win new South American markets, he concluded to sacrifice the G. 0. P. tradition of protection for U. S. Nationals and their property in Central America...
United Fruit did not have to wait long for its answer. Exactly one week after the Logtown outrage?over the weekend, as is customary in Latin America?civil war suddenly erupted in Honduras just north of Nicaragua against the government of President Vincente Mejia Colindres. Rebel forces under Generals Diaz and Ferrera fell upon the north coast towns of Tela, Progreso and Ceiba, were repulsed by loyal troops, seized fruit company locomotives, cars, tracks. Standard Fruit (Honduras holdings: 164,000 acres in bananas; 250 mi. of railroad) and United Fruit ordered its ships to stand by at the ports...
...Author. Like William Shakespeare, Dashiell Hammett has little Latin and less Greek, abandoned formal education in his first year of high school to be: a messenger boy. clerk in an advertising office, in a broker's office, timekeeper in a machine shop, stevedore, railroadman. But his chief job, at which he worked both before and after the War, was as a Pinkerton detective. He says: "I was a pretty good sleuth, but possibly a bit over-rated because of the plausibility with which I could explain away my failures." During the War, Hammett acquired a sergeantcy and tuberculosis, has lost...
...Latin Literature. Sever...
...called to the following schedule of examinations: MONDAY, APRIL 27 AT 5 O'CLOCK Elementary French New Lect, Hall Reading French New Lect, Hall TUESDAY, APRIL 28 AT 5 O'CLOCK Elementary German New Lect, Hall Reading German New Lect, Hall WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 AT 5 O'CLOCK Reading Latin Harvard 5 THURSDAY, APRIL 30 AT 5 O'CLOCK Reading Greek Harvard...