Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hope. If the Premier bosses the country, Paul bosses the Premier, particularly his foreign policies. Yugoslavia, too, has a Good Neighbor doctrine. Up to Munich its best Neighbors were Rumania and Czechoslovakia, which with Yugoslavia functioned as the French-backed Little Entente. Yugoslavia now is a key power in the four-year-old Balkan Entente- Yugoslavia, Rumania, Greece, Turkey. All these States grabbed land from Bulgaria after the Balkan and World Wars, and the one thing they have most in common is their resolve not to give any of it back. They also are resolved not to be the puppets...
...money for more tunneling. For clothing he used garments discarded by other prospectors, patched them with flour sacking. He does not smoke or chew, but takes a nip of wine occasionally. He has never, he says, been lonely. Once he came stumbling into the shack of a neighbor, shaking and bloody. "Bad cave in," he said. "Nearly got me that time...
...Navy as soon as the law allowed. After a six-year hitch he signed as an able seaman on the Panama Pacific liner California. This fall the California and her sisterships Virginia and Pennsylvania became the Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina of the Maritime Commission's Good Neighbor Fleet (American Republics Line). At Rio de Janeiro on November 4, on the Uruguay's maiden voyage, a Brazilian longshoreman fell off a gangplank, caromed off a bulky wooden fender and toppled into the water. In leaped Seaman Wyly, grabbed the unconscious man, was reaching up to get a hold when...
...Uruguay then sailed south for Montevideo and Buenos Aires. On the way back north the Uruguay hove into Rio on November 17 to be hailed by a cheering delegation of 200 Brazilian seamen. The man they cheered for was Good Neighbor Wyly. The delegation escorted him to a flag-draped automobile, sped him to the hospital to receive the thanks of the recuperating stevedore, then took him back to his ship. There they gave him a gold medal; a twelve-inch gold filigree model of the windjammer Saldanha da Gama, $25 in cash and an offer of a life...
Back in Manhattan last week Able Sea man Wyly, in the creased and scrubbed dungarees of his calling, diffidently owned up to his heroism, hastened off to bunk at the Sea men's Y. M. C. A. until the Uruguay was ready for another Good Neighbor errand...