Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quotas. In a factory area, for instance, many holders of low order numbers on the national list may be classified in "necessary" occupations and thus deferred. Result: in such an area a registrant with an order number above 1,000 may find himself called ahead of his neighbor, with No. 20. Last week registrants could not know what their chances of being called actually were until their local lists were set up, the first batches of questionnaires had been answered...
While he put his back yard in order Lazaro Cardenas also had an explanation to rr:..:e concerning relations with his big next-door neighbor. He called in a batch of U. S. correspondents to explain some misunderstandings about the now-you-see-it-now-you-don't embargo on mercury shipments to Japan. There had never been any embargo, the President said. Export of mercury and molybdenum was suspended while the Government investigated reports that shipments of the metals had been smuggled in from the U. S. When the reports proved false, export was resumed. Although the President...
...tail-coated plenipotentiary with a title, Pierson was just the man to give ceremonial lustre to Jesse Jones's deals. Nowhere was this lustre more useful than in Argentina, No. 1 thorn in the Good Neighbor Policy's side...
...British outpost to a closely-tied satellite of America, and right now it is a weak flank. This presents the U. S. with a paradoxical problem. Canada, which over a year ago declared war on the dictators, is now, because of her weakness, a cause of concern to her neighbor to the South, a nation whose war preparations and fervor eclipse her own, and yet a peaceful nation, dedicated to preventing further spread...
...FACE OF THE VERDICT-John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). Dr. Priestley, scientist, again works with Supt.Hanslet and Inspector Jimmy Waghorn. Major Bedworthy is drowned near Blacksand. Accident, says the jury. Maybe, says his friend and neighbor. Priestley plows around in rubber boots among motives of sex and money...