Word: pan-american
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...Pan-American Airways Corp. declared a 25? dividend, the first since the system was organized seven years ago. A profit maker since 1931, Pan American boosted its mail, passenger and express traffic 30% for the first six months of this year over last year...
...opportunity to acquire a foothold in Latin America. By giving up the Platt Amendment the U. S. therefore gave up virtually nothing of practical importance, while winning the kindly regard of those nations to the South which have long looked with open skepticism upon U. S. protestations of Pan-American equality...
...Miami Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, accompanied by Braintruster Rexford Guy Tugwell and a bevy of female newshawks, boarded Pan-American Airways' 44-passenger American Clipper and flew away to the Caribbean Islands. At San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, alighting in a fresh white suit, she was carried off by President Trujillo in his automobile bearing a large brass plaque "Primera Dama de la Republica!" to a palm-thatched pavilion where the President and Foreign Minister Arturo Lograno entertained her elegantly. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, she hugged Mrs. James Bourne, wife of the Relief Administrator. At St. Thomas...
Ecuador. At Callao, Peru, Secretary Hull and party boarded the sleek, sumptuous Grace Liner Santa Barbara. So did the Pan-American delegations of Nicaragua, Haiti. Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala. Off La Libertad, Ecuador the Santa Barbara with her load of diplomacy stopped briefly, but not long enough for Secretary Hull to pay even a flying visit to the Capital. However, a boatload of welcoming Ecuadorian officials scrambled aboard, were treated to food & oratory at Secretary Hull's expense...
...that President Roosevelt would soon recognize Mendieta's government. Unembarrassed by the general belief that he was responsible for Batista's making of President Mendieta, U. S. Observer Jefferson Caffery rushed off in a destroyer to meet his boss, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, homing from the Pan-American Conference aboard the cruiser Richmond. He then rushed back on the destroyer to tell President Mendieta "informally" that President Roosevelt plans to recognize his government...