Word: pan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pan American Conference...
World Opinion. The eyes of the world are upon the fifth Pan American Conference now in session at Santiago de Chile. Secretary of State Hughes, in a message to the Conference, made a plea for a better understanding between nations, the removal of suspicion, distrust and hatred. Every chancellery in Europe it watching the deliberations at the Chilean capital with the keenest interest, with curiosity, with envy, with hatred. Opinion is graduated: there are expressions of genuine goodwill; of mathematical what-will-it-all-come-to. Some see in the Conference the rich New World pitting itself against...
...fifth Pan-American Conference assembles at Santiago de Chile, Sunday, March...
...Henry P. Fletcher, Ambassador to Belgium. Other members: ex-Senator Kellogg of Minnesota; ex-Senator Pomerene of Ohio; ex-Senator Saulbury of Delaware; George E. Vincent, President of the Rockefeller Foundation; Frank C. Partridge of Vermont; William Eric Fowler of Washington; Dr. L. S. Rowe, Director of the Pan-American Union...
Alexandro Finta de Arba, sculptor and director of all sculpture exhibits at the Pan-American Exposition at Rio de Janeiro, had to prove to immigration authorities at Ellis Island that he actually was an artist in order to gain admission to this country. Artists are exempt from immigration quotas, and as a result there have been a horde of impromptu "artists" on all arriving steamships. Signer de Arba proved his status by cablegrams from Rio de Janeiro-not by demonstrating his skill upon the spot...