Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Argentina's Policy. For reasons both psychological and geographical, Argentina has opposed U.S. policy consistently since Franklin Roosevelt gave the first diplomatic twist to the words Good Neighbor nine years ago come April. Argentina is nationalistic, European-minded, antagonistic to U.S.-or any other-leadership, jealous of its own leadership in the southern end of the hemisphere. Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú said just before the Conference last week: "This America of ours must be preserved for peace." Translated from the diplomatic, this meant that Argentina might oppose Mr. Welles's program...
...nobody has doped out a way to reallocate the jumpy housewife's unmeasured hoard. If she plays squirrel again as she did in 1939 (TIME, Sept. 18, 1939) ration cards will be the only way to keep her calmer neighbor in sugar...
...Bronx, the Navy notified Louise Clifton of her husband's death. She went to bed sobbing. Then a good German neighbor (a Mrs. Goering) advised her to eat a herring on New Year's Eve, make a wish. Louise did. At midnight a messenger boy knocked at her door. It was all a mistake: Coxswain Clarence Calvin Clifton is still alive...
Finds. Near Moneta, Wyo., a hunter found an unopened letter in a clump of sagebrush. It was addressed to his mother-in-law, postmarked May 12, 1939. In Hobart, Mich., Ray Loomis found a set of false teeth in his potato patch, returned them to a neighbor who had lost them...
ENVIOUS CASCA-Georgette Heyer -Crime Club ($2). Variation on two familiar detective-story themes-the English-house -party-where - everybody-hates-his-neighbor, and the corpse-in-the-room-locked-from-the-inside. Pungent dialogue and A-1 characterization make up for certain small shortcomings in the plot...