Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That in the simplest terms, is the fundamental dilemma the good neighbor policy is attempting to resolve. In spite of the grudging support or open opposition of American financial interests, it is attempting to plow the field has been inordinately rocky, as has the Mexican; and while on the latter front Mr. Donald R. Richberg is performing--apparently with increasing success--the hereculean task of reconciling Standard Oil and Mr. Cardenas, the State Department is proceeding space with canned corn beef. Such policies, fragmentary in themselves, add up in the long run to the political "atmosphere" in which American intervention...
...year of his greatest triumphs was 1933, when he walked away from the otherwise still-born World Economic Conference in London with the embryo of U. S. recognition of the U.S.S.R. The same year he embarked on a series of non-aggression pacts with every Soviet neighbor except Japan. Scared by Adolf Hitler's "if-I-had-the-Ukraine" line of chatter, he played the game of collective security for all it was worth throughout the dictators' aggressions in Ethiopia, Spain, Austria. Last autumn, the Czecho-Slovak crisis found him again at Geneva proposing joint British-French-Russian...
Near Paris, Tex., irascible Farmer Marion Mackey lost his temper at his neighbors' trespassing chickens, grabbed his shotgun, told his wife: "I'm going to kill that whole damn outfit." Marching to the farm of Neighbor James Winchel Snow, 79, Marion Mackey began shooting. When he had mowed down Farmer Snow and Mrs. Snow, their two daughters and son-in-law-killing three of the five-Mackey was still mad. On his way to hide out in the Red River bottoms, he stopped to kill Farmer Dee Chandler, who was plowing a field...
...This is an invitation to you do something really worthwhile with this life of yours," Streit concluded, pointing out that if every man waits for his neighbor to take action on the plan, nothing will be accomplished. "You've got to go out and get it yourself if you want this Union!" was his final challenge...
...petition signed by over three hundred undergraduates, Harvard has signified its eagerness to make America's "good neighbor" niceties more than diplomatic syrup. Harvard's curriculum cannot fill the demand. Its catalogue boasts only one half-course in Brazilian history, shared with Argentina and Chile, and one course in Portugese, given in alternate years and in old Portugese at that...