Word: lima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three very different Americans for this success-the hemispheric consciousness of President Roosevelt, the simple candor of Cordell Hull and the behind-the-scenes effectiveness of Sumner Welles. Says Author Wertenbaker: "The President is the idea man, Hull translates the ideas into policy, Welles attends to the details." At Lima, Hull singlehandedly held the anti-hemispheric forces to a draw. How strong these forces are Wertenbaker makes clear in his sections on Nazi activities in South America, especially the Uruguay incident which compelled the U. S. to send a cruiser to Montevideo for fear of a Nazi uprising
Married. Constance Winant, 20, only daughter of Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, student at the university in Lima; and Carlos Valando, 22, Peruvian scientist; at Chincha, Peru. They flew to the U. S. for a second ceremony before Ambassador Winant leaves for London...
After the tumor peeled off, the patient was troubled with a new growth the size of "a large lima bean." When the doctors injected into it an arsenic compound, the lump disappeared in a few days. The patient lived "free from tumor" for two years, finally died of heart failure...
...intervene in the Spanish War and was first Nazi Ambassador to Nationalist Spain. As President of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin, he directs "cultural" relations, but also arranges contacts between aspiring Latin American generals and the Reichswehr. Speaking before the German Academy on the occasion of the Lima Pan-American Conference, he declared: "There is but one danger to Latin America. That is the United States...
...Before breakfast, ½ gal. of buttermilk. Typical breakfast: 1 doz. fried eggs, a huge ½-in.-thick slice of ham, 1 doz. hard rolls, 1 qt. black coffee. Dinner: 1 doz. raw oysters, chicken gumbo, terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw, stewed corn, 1 hot mince pie, 1 qt. coffee; 1 bottle sauterne, 1 qt. champagne, several cognacs. He particularly liked a 7-lb. beefsteak, 1½-in. thick, so rare it was hardly warm.. * A violation of a major canon of the American Bar Association, which, however, never peeped until some...