Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great idea for keeping in touch with Elizabeth and her husband. He became a radio ham, W 9 FFB, with a radiophone transmitter in the basement. In San Juan, P. R., not far from Elizabeth, lived an active radio ham, Mrs. Jennie Ramirez, K 4 FOW. She and Neighbor Elizabeth hit it off fine, and for most of last year they had gay radio gabfests almost every day with Allison, 2,500 miles away. Jennie introduced Arthur Allison around the ten-metre band. In no time, Allie was a member in good standing of the farthest-flung fraternity...
That Rumania, pushed and backed by the Allies, had decided on a resolute stand against Germany and Russia was further evidenced - and explained - by a scene last week in Sofia, capital of Rumania's southern and (until lately) cool neighbor Bulgaria. Rumania's Finance Minister Mitita Constantinescu, after a two-day visit talking politics and economics with the Bulgarians, bade them farewell by crying: "Long live Bulgaria!" and joining his hosts in throwing top hats into...
...fall on the intruder's head. In the warm months, as soon as Miss Claudius got up, she repaired to her backyard, where she kept an old piano, weathering but still tuneful in the open air. She would play her piano, and sing to the birds. When the neighbors objected, Miss Claudius said: "The birds are up, why can't you get up?" Inside she had another piano, which she played in the evenings. On the piano at the neighbor hood Republican club, one of her favorite resorts, she sometimes played and sang opera arias. She could never...
...failed a brother in the hour of distress. She failed her historic obligations and failed her own future.' " Even more outspoken was a pamphlet written and published by an Army colonel and a Stockholm professor of history: "Fools are those believing a free Sweden may exist as the neighbor of a Finland trampled down by Bolshevism. No doubt exists that Russia is aiming farther than the suppression of Finland. . . ." A Russia with an Atlantic seacoast, and thus a potential sea power, is something for almost everybody to think about-including Germany...
...juiciest overseas plum secured by Yankee traders since inauguration of the Good Neighbor Policy is a 60-year concession to exploit oil lands throughout the whole of Saudi Arabia. This plum fell to Standard Oil Co. of California last summer-almost unnoticed, since U. S. citizens were then so busy watching the European volcano burp. What soft-collared, spatless Standard businessmen had achieved was signal defeat of top-hatted Japanese, Ger man and British diplomats who had been struggling for years to win this Near East prize...