Word: pan-american
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...chatsy for Sweetheart Soap was sandwiched in between the early afternoon serials last year, will have a better radio spot after mid-September. Signed last week was a contract to put her on the air for a 15-minute talk every Sunday night at 6:45 E.D.S.T. for the Pan-American Coffee Bureau, U.S. representative of seven Latin-American countries which produce about 90% of the coffee consumed...
...question as to forfeiting your reputation for stating the facts or turning TIME'S Air Express Edition into a propaganda sheet, in my judgment there can be but one answer. You have established a reputation for unbiased news and as such you are making a valuable contribution to Pan-American relations...
...Pan-American solidarity was nevertheless somewhat more fluid than it had been before the attack on Russia. Evidence of this was contained in the refusal of Argentina to support Uruguay's proposal that all the Americas regard as nonbelligerent any American country at war with an outside power (TIME, June 23). Argentina insisted that the proposal was merely "superfluous...
...obliged to cover. ... I state this merely to make it clear that ... I, as a Governmental propagandist, am in no way suggesting that TIME pull its punch." But Publisher Franklin Johnston of the American Exporter took the lead in demanding that TIME'S news be expurgated for Pan-American consumption. "In general," said he, "TIME'S story on the Rockefeller offices is, no doubt, a piece or legitimate reporting for American readers, But TIME has no business to send to Latin America in its Air-Express edition news of this kind. . . . What is meat for us here...
...have dreamed of a Pan-American highway, happiest dreamer last week was probably Richard Albert Tewkesbury, 34, skinny, frail, 112-lb., 5 ft. 3 in. algebra instructor at Harding High School in Charlotte, N.C. "Tooks," as he is known to the students who tower over him, is mild, puny, deep-voiced and bashful; he has peanut-sized biceps, and looks wan. Any critical Southern mammy would describe him as "peaked." He is also lionhearted, stubborn, iron-nerved, grimly determined, and a hero...