Word: pan-american
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...Pan-American conferences in the world will not keep the United States out of another world conflict, unless Washington, in cooperation with the Latin-American desire for organized peace, takes bold steps to crush the opportunity for commercial profit from a foreign war. Politically this country is isolated from Europe, but not so commercially...
Early that evening in Washington's Union Station, Attorney General Homer Cummings and RF Chairman Jesse Jones said farewell to him. and he was off to the Pan-American Peace Conference at Buenos Aires. From that hour, time failed to march on as rapidly as the seasons. It was an early spring next morning at Charleston, warm May next evening in the Gulf Stream, sweltering summer four days later at Trinidad. For Franklin Roosevelt was off over the rim of the calendar...
...While American attention has been riveted upon the common European scene and, to a lesser extent, upon the Pan-American peace efforts, some fire-crackers have been competing unsuccessfully in the din. Yet they are worth noticing, for almost any one of them may be linked in series with a world-shaking bomb...
...only ten days to do it in. Next week, he announced, he would go to Charleston, board the fast cruiser Indianapolis and probably speed under forced draft all the way to Buenos Aires to make a speech at the opening session of the Pan-American Peace Conference. Meantime he saw his Cabinet, consulted Budget Director Bell, for a Budget has to be made up before Congress convenes on Jan. 5. To questions of newshawks about new Cabinet members, he answered by saying all that would have to wait. He found time, however, to dedicate a stone bench in Rock Creek...
...narrowly escaping pneumonia. Governor Alf Landon, duckhunting. New Jersey's Senator-elect William Henry Smathers, hunting in Berwick, Pa., barely missed being shot by his secretary. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., to Sea Island Beach, Ga. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to Buenos Aires for the Pan-American Conference. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, a speaking tour of twelve lectures in 16 days. Said she: "I plan to try to plan my time better so as to have a more peaceful time...