Word: pan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pan American...
...soap, a long cart rope, a frying pan and kettle...
...unpleasant experience all around, this reopening of Barrie's 30-year-old candy box. It was sad for Barrie, because it showed that time has beaten those early imaginings of his. It was sad for Basil Dean, English director, because it showed (as in Hassan and Peter Pan) that he is second rate. It was chiefly sad for Ruth Chatterton, of whom Alexander Woollcott wrote: "Compared with this unhappy event [Miss Chatterton's playing], the selection of Marilyn Miller seemed nothing short of inspired." Maude Adams alone got praise...
...Nearing explained the part played by American capital in forwarding the most recent Mexican revolution. New York, to his mind, controls Mexico, as it does the rest of Pan America. It maintains this control in spite of the recent passage by the Mexican congress of a law which directs practically 40 per cent of all oil to the reservoir and the pocketbook of the Mexican government. Oil determines all American intercourse with Mexico...
...Pan-American Union, of which Mexico is a member, is of no consequence in our relations with all those nations," said Mr. Nearing. "A former New York bank director is at the head of the Union. Loans made by the United States nullify all the advantages, real or imaginary, gained for any nation by membership. Almost all South American countries have had American loans forced upon them. New York cracks the whip and they jump...