Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago, Rex Tugwell fired the Coalition members of San Juan's civilian-defense board, replaced them with Populares. Saying that civilian defense had bogged down, he put a friend of Muñoz Marin at the head of civilian defense in San Juan and its neighbor cities. Coalitionists retorted that Tugwell had thrown a wrench in the works, said: "He is harder to see than the Pope...
...dream boat of Pan-American solidarity, manned by men of good will and propelled by idealism, last week weathered the roughest storm since it was launched nine years ago as the U.S. Good Neighbor Policy. At Rio de Janeiro foreign ministers representing the American republics worked to make the dream of complete solidarity come true. They nearly failed&151;nearly succeeded&151;nearly failed again&151;finally made it seem nearly true...
William Wachenfeld, the county prosecutor, was naturally incredulous when a neighbor came to him with a complaint against 66-year-old Mrs. Carr. The neighbor accused Mrs. Carr of swindling her out of $4,700. A skeptical detective went out to investigate...
...real. For the first time in the long history of Pan-American conferences, delegates, influenced by a common fear of Axis aggression and the past nine years of friendly U.S. relations, seemed to share a feeling that this time the U.S. was not a hypocritical boss but a Good Neighbor who had been attacked. Sumner Welles took a seat on the opposite side of the hall from Señor Ruiz...
...Franklin Roosevelt's good friend & neighbor, Judge John Mack, became president (at $90,000 a year); globe-trotting ex-Ambassador William C. Bullitt, Ralph Budd, Robert L. Stevens became board members...