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...Neighboring countries (presumably Brazil, Paraguay, probably Bolivia and Chile) will be invited to participate in the plans. The U. S. stayed out of the picture, but Ambassador Norman Armour and Foreign Minister Roca have recently had long heart-to-heart talks. Last week the U. S. lent Argentina $60,000,000. Before the bases are built, the U. S. will most probably lend technical assistance-as well as money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: On the River of Silver | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...prosperous and busy is an America invincible and free?" By the same reasoning, any prosperous and busy tyranny from ancient Babylon to present day Russia may be termed "invincible and free." Modern Holland was prosperous and busy. She was not invincible, and her prosperity and freedom are lost. Since lent of invincibility and freedom? Edwin L. Popper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/6/1940 | See Source »

...nation and exposing them for a year to all known data and theory on the practices of the newspaper world. This has been the exact course followed by the Foundation, with obvious success for those "chosen few." However, it is the personal success of these men which has lent some doubt about the ultimate practically of the scheme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NIEMAN NEMESIS | 11/26/1940 | See Source »

Professor Greenough's constant devotion to Harvard and Harvard affairs should be a great source of reassurance to those who cling to the hope that Harvard is something more than an educational factory. He lent a sensitive humanity to his dealings with the University that went far beyond the line of duty. One sees him worrying with the problem of supporting English a for five months on a balance of 82.25; or trying, as dean, to make the Freshman's problem of adjustment a less tortuos one; or, as bouscmaster, asking his assistants to find out which...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 11/13/1940 | See Source »

strength-in-the-making. More than half the $500,000,000 recently added to the Export-Import Bank's kitty to help Latin America economically will be lent for the purchase of arms (see p. 65), for the equipment of most Latin-American armies and navies is obsolete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Arms and the Man | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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