Word: pan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pan-American Conference...
Chile: The Fifth Pan-American Congress will open at Santiago de Chile on March 25. The American Delegation will be headed by Henry P. Fletcher, Ambassador to Belgium and former Ambassador to Chile and Mexico...
...second conference was held in Mexico City in 1901 on the proposal of President McKinley. It was at this meeting of American representatives from the North and South Continents that it was decided to hold a Pan-American Congress every five years...
Chile: Some misapprehension is being caused by the absence from Santiago of the Bolivian Minister, and the Secretary of the Bolivian Legation, the former on " vacation " and the latter on "business." It is feared that the recent refusal of Bolivia to attend the Pan-American Congress on account of Chile's declining to reconsider the Treaty of 1904 (and give Bolivia a seaport) is about to cause a diplomatic rupture between the two countries...
Professor Montgomery of the University of California views the problem otherwise. He told his mixed class in English that 7,000 of the 10,000 students at Berkeley " should be attached to the handle of a pick or a frying pan." Though limited to young Californians, the challenge was taken up in the East and a general sentiment expressed that 7,000 was too high. Presumably Professor Montgomery has no pride of exact opinion; 6,500 might satisfy...