Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...street corner where it grew, Tap Dancer Bill Robinson joined the frantic crowd that tore it to splinters; trying to save it, he salvaged two chunky hunks. / / Dated to sing this week at a ball at wealthy Mrs. Herbert Shipman's plushy villa in Newport is her new neighbor, Gertrude Niesen, chatelaine of the Oelrichs mansion. / / Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 24 and twice a father, won his appeal to Washington for draft deferment as a family man. / / When the chorus of Cincinnati Summer Opera Association, claiming $400 for overtime rehearsals, walked out just before the curtain rose, the management hastily...
...Ahab-like Uncle Sam, at dollar diplomacy, at the use of military force to achieve diplomatically negotiable ends. He urged instead the stimulation of commercial ties, the interchange of experts, the sharing of the responsibility of keeping the Hemispheric peace. This was the germ of the Good Neighbor policy of Franklin Roosevelt...
Welles regards all extremes as ridiculous. To him the problem of post-war peace is primarily diplomatic: arrange means whereby trade will flow freely throughout the world, establish by negotiation an international diplomacy based on the Good Neighbor policy, insure the domination of the world by the Western Hemisphere, and the quiet but definite domination of the Western Hemisphere...
...arrive in Buenos Aires and drink your 'good neighbor' whiskey in a friendly atmosphere. You visit our capital city, and you return to the White House to tell Mr. Roosevelt...
Plugging coffee will enable Mrs. Roosevelt to do her bit both for charity and the Good-Neighbor policy. As usual, she will distribute her estimated $2,000-a-week radio earnings (minus taxes) to such favorite enterprises as the American Friends Service Committee. Her programs will also be short-waved to Latin America...