Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Neighbor policy (rubber division) got another boost last week when President Roosevelt vetoed a bill which would have encouraged the growing of guayule and other rubber-bearing plants. His objection: the bill's encouragement was confined to the U.S.; he wanted Mexican and Brazilian rubber promoted too. A Senate committee hastily revised the bill to promote guayule-growing anywhere in the Western Hemisphere...
...There was that damned hyena . . . this intoxicated harridan, waiting for the first person to come out," she explained later. "It was too bad it was me." Miss Thompson, awaiting her cab, started on her sidewalk neighbor: "My good woman. . . ." The blonde rejoined with a kick to the stomach, got a push in the face. The blonde bit Miss Thompson's right index finger, jumped in a cab and scooted away...
...psychological fascinations of foul play in a secluded house in Victorian England. The old ladies, three of 'em, are boarders in a rooming house, each passing away her last few years alone. A conflict of personalities between the sadistic, half-crazed Agatha Payne and her high-strung, fragile neighbor, May Beringer, provides the substance of the drama. Starting slowly, the play generates suspense in an ever-heightening increase in tension, without benefit of creaky floorboards and family ghosts. And when it has reached its telling and climactic crisis, which very properly coincides with the limits of audience endurance, it stops...
...Perfect. As airtight as possible, the resolutions had their theme best expressed in Article 22, which declared: "The principle that international conduct must be inspired by the policy of the Good Neighbor is the norm of international law on the American continent." This Good Neighbor diplomacy reached its peak at the Conference's concluding plenary session in Tiradentes Palace. Brazil's Aranha, scarcely able to control the excitement in his bass voice, announced to stomping, cheering crowds that Brazil, largest and strategically the most important of the South American countries had ". . . at 6 o'clock today broken...
...Dominions put autonomy first, a share in Empire affairs second. South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts raised not a whisper to aid Prime Minister Curtin; New Zealand's Peter Fraser tended to go along with London and Winston Churchill, did as little as a near neighbor could do to support Australia. Of all the Dominions, Canada had long been the most aggressive in her demands for autonomy within the Commonwealth. Her Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King stoutly stood with Churchill, content to let London run the Empire...