Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million-but it was tied with tawdry strings. To qualify for it, the school was to pledge itself to exclude "any person of African or Asiatic origin." It must promise to teach "through every medium possible . . . Christianity and the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon and Latin American races." Jewish students would be banned, added an Armstrong spokesman, unless converted to Christianity. To nail it all down, old Judge Armstrong demanded a new five-man board of trustees, provided that he would name three of them himself. Among his candidates: old (75) George Van Horn Moseley, onetime major general...
...Charter, he pointed out, required that nonpermanent Security Council members be elected "with due regard" to "geographical distribution." According to a U.N. "gentlemen's agreement,"claimed Vishinsky, this article in practice bound the Assembly to accept the nominees chosen by each regional group; i.e., a caucus of Latin American countries could pick the member from Latin America, etc. To Vishinsky this meant that Russia, and Russia alone, could pick the member for Eastern Europe.† Since Russia backed the Czechs for the vacant seat and disapproved of Yugoslavia, it was both "illegal and improper" that her candidacy even came...
Delegates were tight-lipped on how they had cast their ballots, but best guesses were that all the Dominions except Canada had joined Britain in voting for the Czechs, alongside Norway, Denmark, Argentina and at least three other Latin American countries...
Father Feeney announced his own dismissal at a press conference last night. He translated from the Latin a sentence of the decree, which said: "Your dismissal from the Society of Jesus through judicial process has been approved...
...attraction for two independent sets of Cambridge High and Latin bobby-soxers was lead actor Ricardo Montalban. Suddenly discovering that Montalban was the one who sang "Baby It's Cold Outside" to Esther Williams in a recent MGM aquashow, the teenagers twice held up shooting with autograph battles...