Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fighter. In many ways, Cordell Hull's place was unique. Among his diplomatic victories he could list such achievements as the reciprocal trade agreements, the Good Neighbor policy, the 1943 Moscow Declaration and the Dumbarton Oaks agreement. The Hull failures have also been impressive. In success or failure, Mr. Hull usually preserved his native dignity. That dignity was sore beset when Franklin Roosevelt torpedoed the 1933 London Economic Conference from under him. It did not desert him (though it called to its aid some white-hot Tennessee cuss words) when Pearl Harbor caught him politely conferring with two grinning...
...golfing partners were old friends: Carl Hogan, Manhattan antique dealer and Pawling neighbor; husky Secretary Paul Lockwood. Their lunch- sandwiches and hot soup-came by station wagon from the hotel, six miles away...
...State Department have caused it to be known vaguely as fascist. The answers to two questions which might clarify the situation are obscured by the fogs of Argentine and Hemisphere politics: 1) In Argentina's ruling junta who is the strong man? 2) Is Argentina a Good Neighbor...
...special role is willy-nilly to defend the South American continent against the Colossus of the North; and of the fact that the U.S., engaged in a life & death struggle with the Axis, was lining up the Latin American nations on her side under the guise of the Good Neighbor Policy...
Next morning Nubbins opened his eyes and said at once: "It's Christmas!" Ordinarily shy, he gravely shook hands with the neighbor dressed as Santa Claus, appeared at the window to pose for photographers...