Word: lima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Statesman Franklin Roosevelt's ambitious plan to have next month's Pan-American Conference in Lima put as much starch into Democracy as Japanese armies and Munich have put into Autocracy. Last week the State Department announced the members of the U. S. delegation to Lima, which will be headed by Secretary of State Hull...
...that these Good Neighbors will go over even better at Lima than their predecessors did at Buenos Aires, the Administration last week applied remover to the two outstanding wrinkles in its Latin American relations...
WASHINGTON--The United States will use the forthcoming Pan-American Conference at Lima, Peru, as a forum to combat the spread of fascist and Nazi influence in Latin America through the initiation of one of the greatest campaigns to strengthen democracy in the world's history, it was indicated tonight...
...France "in war as in peace." Mr. Bullitt denied saying that, said the President. Mr. Roosevelt told the press to reread his and Secretary Hull's recent utterances. Next day Mr. Hull made public a letter, accepting Peru's invitation to the eighth Pan-American Conference (at Lima, December), saying...
Oldest university in the Americas is not Harvard (founded 1636) but the University of San Marcos, in Lima, Peru. San Marcos was established in 1551. Today, housed in a 16th-Century Spanish colonial building, it is made up of a group of professional schools which train Peruvian Government officials. Last week University of San Marcos began to teach a language so ancient it was new even to old San Marcos. The tongue was Quechua, the dialect of the ancient Inca tribes. From it have come such English words as quinine, cocaine. Quechua is still the language of most...