Word: pan-american
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...alarm strikers in their homes, that they may up and away after the engines when a big fire breaks out, is the little group of men & women who strive for fame as flying passengers. Such a one is Mrs. Clara Adams of Tannersville, Pa. who flew last week via Pan-American Airways to Rio de Janeiro, there to board the laggard giant DO-X for its flight...
...school students, winners of sectional oratorical contests conducted by newspapers throughout the land. To hear them orate in competition for the U. S. championship there assembled one night in Constitution Hall 5,000 people and five judges -U. S. Senator Thomas James Walsh, Director Leo S. Rowe of the Pan-American Union, President William Coleman Nevils of Georgetown University, President Cloyd Heck Marvin of George Washington University, Chancellor Lucius Charles Clark of American University. Timekeepers held whistles poised while the seven delivered set speeches on the U. S. Constitution and four-minute extemporaneous orations. Second place was won by Ever...
...weird gnome villages of Mexico and Central America came to world attention last week, at the Pan-American conference of health directors in Washington, in the candid report of Dr. Miguel Bustamente of Mexico City, a Johns Hopkins graduate...
...Another speech made last week by President Hoover was to the governing board of the Pan-American Union. Its gist: "Pan-American Day will become an outward symbol of the constantly strengthening unity of purpose and unity of ideals of the republics of this hemisphere. . . . This spirit of mutual helpfulness is the cornerstone of true Pan-Americanism...
April 13-Radio broadcast of President Hoover's address at the national convention of the American Red Cross in Washington; at 10.30 a. m., E. S. T. April 14-Pan-American Day. Radio addresses beginning at 12.30 p. m. from Washington by President Hoover, Secretary Stimson and Ambassador Tellez of Mexico. April 26-Shift to Daylight Saving Time in many a U. S. town & city. April 29-President & Mrs. Hoover's dinner to the King & Queen of Siam (see below); at the White House. Foreign News...