Word: pan-american
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...Ratify measures adopted ty the Pan-American conference at Panama...
...switched to Spain last spring. Its organizer was shrewd, affable Director Thomas C. Colt Jr. of the Virginia Museum. Its able abettor was the State Department's new (1938) Division of Cultural Relations, formed to combat fascist penetration of Latin America, economic and intellectual, by organizing a Pan-American export trade in ideas. First of a series that may eventually include every nation south of the Rio Grande, the Argentine exhibition will tour the U. S. from coast to coast after it leaves Richmond next month...
Critics - among 1,000 people who passed down the receiving line at the Virginia Museum to look at the show, chat with each other and pile up punch glasses at the base of the statues-agreed that artistically the choice of Argentina to start the Pan-American series of exhibitions had been sound. Like U. S. art, that of the Argentine has a strong flavor of the melting pot, has lately been turning from European influences to its native resources. Many of the 236 paintings, prints, water colors and pieces of sculpture in the show were inspired...
...room of Francisco Castillo Najera, Mexican Ambassador to the U. S., knocked on the door of that poet-musician. Next day Dr. Najera presented the plan, lined up the suspicious delegates behind the new theory of continental solidarity, which has since had two additions: 1) hemisphere defense, 2) the Pan-American 300-mile safety belt...
Died. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, 61, President (the 16th) of Panama, longtime champion of Pan-American solidarity; of a heart attack; in Penonome, Panama...