Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretaries. The Council members follow: Joseph A. Wyant, Winthrop, president; William F. Pennebaker, Leverett, vice-president; Dean R. Noyes, Dunster; Harold Glickman, Dudley; George Dana, Eliot, George B. Lyons, Kirkland; Edmund J. Docring, Lowell; William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics; Clarence H. Haring, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History and Economics and Master of Dunster House, and Samborski...
...before hemisphere trade solidarity is achieved, there is many a headachy problem to be solved. One of these is straightening out foreign exchange, now all muddled because: 1) of the financial sleight-of-hand worked by Germany in building up its Latin American markets, 2) some South American currencies (notably the Argentine) have been tied to the bouncing British pound...
...biggest problem is not merely to stabilize exchange but to find it. For much of the trade given last year to the U. S., Latin Americans got the bulk of their credits from sales of wheat, coffee, meat and other agricultural products to Europe. Today, with the German market gone, and the European neutrals hamstrung by the war's disruption of shipping, Latin America has to find somewhere to sell her goods in order to get money to buy from the U. S. For the present the war needs of the Allies will help fill...
...obstacle to this is that much of what Latin America has to sell is crops and commodities of which in many cases the U. S. has more than enough at home. Given time and ingenuity, mutually profitable trade can be built up. In 1915 U. S. exports to Latin America dropped about 19%, but before the war was out they increased more than 100% over the prewar figures (a substantial increase although partially deceptive because of higher prices). This time the problem is being tackled at the beginning of the war, and the U. S. is no longer a greenhorn...
...resignations in the English Department were also accepted by the Corporation. These were from Reuben A. Brower, who once taught Greek and Latin besides being an instructor and a tutor in the English Department, and from Franklin B. Williams, instructor in English...