Word: pan-american
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...sinking of the Titanic. Auguries and omens are things which Franklin Roosevelt ignores. Last week, he began April 14 by working till 2 145 a. m. preparing the message to Congress. After six hours' sleep, he rose, breakfasted, sent the message to the Capitol, delivered the Pan-American Day speech at the Pan-American Union Building, received six Campfire Girls and a delegation of United Automobile Workers officials, and delivered the fireside chat...
...fussed with a recalcitrant eyelash, she branched off into foreign affairs long enough to go on record in favor of a Pan-American Union. She said "I love everything and everybody, and that's why I've never had a flop...
Peace machinery that leaps into motion on the threat of war and stays in motion until peace is again obtained is the ideal that Ricardo J. Alfaro, former president of Panama, declared is needed to settle Pan-American relations. He gave the speech yesterday evening in Emerson Hall...
...European sections of the bands have become crowded with Italy, Germany, Russia and, of late, Britain all trying to influence other nations with short-wave political broadcasts. Europe would like some of the U. S. space but is little likely to get it at the Cairo meeting for the Pan-American nations last autumn agreed to back the U. S. in a bloc. Representing the U. S. was a commission of four, a staff of 25, headed by veteran U. S. delegate to international radio parleys, Maine's heavy-jowled Senator Wallace H. White Jr. It will be Senator...
...winter-holiday trippers, who have been pouring into Mexico over the new Pan-American highway in increasing numbers, were inclined to regard this as a slight overstatement. Mexico is far from Sunday-afternoon quiet. Almost daily occurrences for the past few months have been bloody strikes, clashes between rival labor groups, bandit raids, ominous grumbles by the newly-enfranchised peons against the failure of President Lázaro Cárdenas' agrarian program and revolts by disenfranchised landlords. Crux of the trouble is Cárdenas' lack of money. With a failing credit he has had to curtail...