Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack on the Monroe Doctrine on the eve of the Havana Conference (TIME, July 15). Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull, before setting out for Havana with eight trade, monetary, agricultural and political experts, slapped back at another attempt to make trouble. From Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua came reports that Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German Minister to the Central American Republics, had circulated a note of warning among the small but touchy nations that lie near the Panama Canal...
Eire, Canada, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Cuba and the U. S. maintain the only armies in the world of 1940 whose ranks are filled by volunteers. But last week conscription loomed as an imminent reality for the U. S. Never yet has the U. S. had conscription in peacetime, only twice in time of war.* Yet, bulking big in the background for millions of John Does and Richard Roes, peacetime conscription last week cast its unfamiliar shadow over an active week on the U. S. defense front. It was the first big, tough, concrete reality...
...States in Washington. One recommendation made by this conference: an Inter-American Bank, to be owned cooperatively by the U. S. and other American Republics, to finance hemisphere trade. Last week, 50 years later, Cordell Hull's State Department had lined up five Latin American Republics (Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Brazil, Bolivia) as its partners in an Inter-American Bank, to be set up as soon as Congress passes the necessary laws...
...Nation blossom out into a full-blown crusading radical weekly. Publisher Villard had opposed U. S. entry into the war, and in The Nation he set out to blast imperialism, war, monopoly, reaction. The Nation campaigned to have U. S. troops recalled from Santo Domingo, Haiti, Nicaragua, denounced the Treaty of Versailles, fulminated against lynching, helped to uncover the Teapot Dome oil scandals...
...creeps, it usually creeps all over. Observatories all over the world reported that their seismographs had kicked up. In the California coast range, an earthquake woke sleepers. In South Africa's rich Rand, 25 tremors sent natives running for the countryside. Bolsena, near Rome, felt four shocks, and Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras all reported quakes...