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...American has carried 204,000 passengers, has had one nasty accident. A year ago last week one of its planes vanished in the snowswept Andes with seven passengers, two pilots. No trace of it has been found. Two other lives have been lost, both unnecessarily. On two occasions a Pan-American flying boat in distress alighted on water and, while the occupants were being rescued by another craft, one passenger dropped into...
Reading your paper of April 3, I find a writing entitled "Medicine" about the Pan-American Medical Congress, lately celebrated at Dallas, Texas. And I have been greatly surprised to read that Cuba is among the countries whose governments have paid the doctors' expenses. You had a very poor information and I wish you to please make clear that I myself covered all my expenses and I can assure you that no one of the Cuban's doctors received a single penny from the government, and that we were not representing the government. We were there working...
Congress is over, I wish to take this opportunity to express to you and your wonderful journal our sincere thanks for your co-operation with the Pan-American Medical Association...
...With Secretary of State Hull, President Roosevelt motored to the patioed Pan-American Union Building to address a meeting of the Pan-American Union's governing board. The President interpreted the Monroe Doctrine to his listeners not as an instrument of U. S. dominion over the Americas, but as a mutual protective society "aimed against the acquisition in any manner of the control of additional territory in this hemisphere by any non-American power." For the first time, President Roosevelt took public notice of South America's two undeclared wars between Paraguay and Bolivia, Colombia and Peru...
...barefoot and tend to wash little, they are subject to the tropical fevers and sores. Oroya fever and Andean Wart are peculiar to a small area of the Peruvian highlands. Latin Americans are specially susceptible to cataracts, a situation which partially explains the eminence of eye doctors in the Pan-American Medical Association...