Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house, paraded about with the Presidential bathtub over their heads. Soon MNR members with white armbands stopped the party, but the people of La Paz had shown their dislike for the U.S., had cast doubt upon: 1) the U.S. State Department, and 2) the practical effect of the Good Neighbor policy...
Butler's figures, said Tennessee's testy Kenneth McKellar, were 95% wrong. In the past three years, the U.S. has spent-aside from purchases of strategic materials -only $324 million. Cut out military and naval appropriations, and Lend-Lease paid back, and the Good Neighbor bill would come to only $178 million, McKellar said -not $6 billion...
Obviously there had been a conspiracy. Hudson Valley dairy farmers were irked at their neighbor's retirement from dairying at a time when profits are sagging and feed is short-and the Secretary of Agriculture has been pleading for more milk production...
...Iceland were independent of Denmark, it would come within the sphere of either British or U.S. influence. In Washington, Iceland's Minister Thor Thors made it plain that his country looks to the U.S. as its first big neighbor. But that alone would not decide the issue; at the peace table little Iceland's status would be a problem that the U.S. and Great Britain would have to settle...
...Small Name. In Valley Falls, N.Y., Clifford Lewis, whose wife's name is Frances, arrived from Troy, moved into his new home, found his next-door neighbor is Clifford Lewis, whose wife's name is Frances...