Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conferences. An Inter-American cultural conference ended on a note of far-reaching program-planning. In Guatemala City, Treasury representatives of the 21 Republics met to ponder financial ways & means. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced conclusion of a reciprocal trade agreement with Venezuela (eleventh with a Latin-American nation, 22nd in all), "progress" on new agreements with Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins had his experts meet with Latin-American tourist-bureau chiefs to plot travel increases...
...citizen, trying to keep awake through a synopsis of the preceding chapters, has found his spirit saddened, his eyes closing, his head nodding. To maintain even its present inadequate housing level, the U. S. needs 525,000 new housing units a year for ten years. Under present conditions, the nation has no chance whatever of reaching this total...
...thesis that no other industry has so completely failed to run itself, that none other has so conspicuously burdened the nation with mass unemployment, Arnold trained his batteries on the building trades, last week gave the signal to fire...
...conscious of their moral obligations are its editors that they publish no divorce actions, no slander suits, no suicides. Some years ago a member of the Argentine Cabinet killed himself, explaining in a note that because of political opposition he could no longer do what was best for the nation, no longer cared to live. Next day La Prensa simply said that he had "died suddenly...
Some bang-up news shots of some of the nation's best upset football games are a real addition to the program, but the second feature, "Hero For a Day," would only be "Here For a Day" in anyone else's language...