Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jaunty thin man with the toothy smile had done it again. In Panama's first presidential elections in eight years, demagogic Arnulfo Arias, now 47, had won back the presidency...
...heroes of World War II. He fought with Wavell in the desert, went along on the ill-fated British expedition in Greece, saw his comrades blown to bits, was wounded and captured by the Germans. Clad in a pair of blue pajamas, boots and a white panama he had stolen from a Greek plumber, Farran escaped, drifted on a caique for nine days until a British destroyer picked him up. He got back to the Western desert in time for El Alamein. One day he drove a brigadier in a staff car when the car suddenly skidded and turned over...
...Super State. Through the Panama conference in 1826 Bolivar had tried in vain to build a league against the despotism of the Old World. Sixty-three years later U.S. Secretary of State James G. Blaine headed the first modern Pan American conference in Washington, in hopes of building a hemispheric trade system based on a newly industrialized U.S. For all the oratory, nothing much happened until World War II turned the system into a virtual Good Neighbors' alliance. It had been Bogotá's job to make the wartime relationship permanent...
Learning that a seat was available on an Army transport plane, the correspondents chose the New York Times's Milton Bracker to convey their uncensored stories to Panama, where they could be filed. The next day Dozier found that he could get out on an Army plane to Panama himself. With Robert Shellaby, of the Christian Science Monitor, he "crawled, ran and sneaked to the embassy and, by jeep and bus, guarded by two soldiers, dashed to the airport...
...Panama, 1939; Havana, 1940; Rio de Janeiro, 1942; Chapultepec (Mexico), 1945, and Quitan-dinha (Brazil...