Word: pan-american
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...somewhat banal white marble palace of the Pan-American Union in Washington last week gathered diplomats from 21 republics of the Western Hemisphere, to hear a somewhat banal Pan-American Day message from their Good Neighbor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Beaming "with faith in the high destiny of the Americas," Good Neighbor Roosevelt spoke a smooth public piece in the style to which all Americans are now accustomed. When he had finished he unexpectedly dismissed the press, asked that the microphones before him be deadened, and in a suspenseful silence gave a confidential extempore talk which every delegate present was soon...
...year before he got his doctorate in civil and public law from the University of Havana, he was attache of the Cuban delegation to the Peace Conference at Versailles. He worked up to Cuba's No. 1 diplomatic post by way of service at the 1928 Pan-American Conference, in the Cuban House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933, and as Minister successively to Belgium, The Netherlands, Great Britain...
Amid the barren, mud-colored hills surrounding Chile's Chuquicamata, stood last week a knot of enthusiastic newshawks. They had stopped off on their way home from a Pan-American Press Conference at Valparaiso for a gigantic entertainment specially staged for them by the world's largest copper mines. They were to see one of the world's largest explosions, the firing of 3,000,000 Ib. of dynamite...
...Fitzpatrick always concludes with a mournful "We take a reluctant leave of the fair city of So and So," it clearly bares the need for something new in this kind of film entertainment. The other type of travelogue is "Wings Over the West," an interesting revelation of how Pan-American flies the Caribbean. Winthrop...
...Aires, the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.) ended with 69 projects approved and this able summing up by a Brazilian delegate: "The United States at last has joined the Pan-American family! Now we can do something and we are going to do it. Watch for even more surprising results at subsequent Inter-American and Pan-American conferences. This is just a beginning...