Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After eight months in office, Secretary of State Dean Acheson this week made his first comprehensive statement on U.S. policy toward Latin America. To the 700 members and guests of the Pan American Society who heard his speech at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, it seemed more a reiteration of long-established principles than a blueprint...
...pointed to the economic help for Latin America already going forward under the Export-Import Bank and the World Bank, but he reaffirmed the U.S. desire to see "the job ahead . . . done through private initiative." He approved the results of such U.S.-sponsored economic surveys as last winter's Abbink Mission to Brazil, and emphasized the State Department's readiness to send out others like...
Despite the enthusiasm of the Mexico City congress, Communism is actually on the decline in Latin America. It has been outlawed in nine countries, plagued by party splits in others. In several countries, e.g., Cuba, the party has deliberately cut its own membership rolls to be ready for underground activity. Moreover, the peace rally could boomerang on party members in some countries. Brazil's Deputy Pedro Pomar, who is a member of the outlawed Communist party but holds his seat because he was also elected on the Social Progressive ticket, was threatened with expulsion from Brazil's Congress...
...tear-jerker,' " continued Doyle, "is a paragraph about 'Marty,' who had difficulties in school, found Latin and algebra 'dull,' quit school . . . 'drifted from one dead-end job to another,' fell in with evil companions, and finally used a gun on a druggist during a holdup. As he awaited sentence, one of his former teachers reflected: 'I was a big help to that boy. I taught him Tennyson and compound verbs...
...know the value of good books ... of Latin, and algebra . . . may be forgiven if we sometimes show just a little irritation when the 'traditional' subjects are made the scapegoat, by implication at least...