Word: panama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aroused artists formed a Continental Committee of Art for Victory, planned a series of propaganda tours. Argentina's Antonio Berni would tour the east coast of South America. Chile's Antonio Quintana would tour Chile, Bolivia and Paraguay. Siqueiros undertook a modest swing through Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Cuba, Mexico...
...South of Panama last week, Yanqui prestige fell steadily. In spite of chill disapproval from the U.S., General Farrell's militarist, Argentina-first government basked and blustered in official recognition from Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay. The U.S. Good Neighbor policy was not yet in acute danger. But proud Argentina, traditionally jealous of the U.S., had made a beginning on a small Good Neighbor policy...
...President then issued his famed, first "Dear Alben" letter, unmistakably naming his choice. There were 75 Democrats in the Senate then. Caucusing, they threw their ballots into Carter Glass's battered old Panama. The first 74 to be counted were evenly divided; the 75th was for Alben Barkley. When the result was announced, he bit off the stem of his briar pipe...
...next year sole survivor, again severely wounded, of a surveying expedition for Cecil Rhodes's Capetown-to-Cairo telegraph line. Lyon fought in the Spanish-American War, served as a sergeant major through the Philippine Insurrection. Home from the wars, he prospected in the Klondike, worked on the Panama Canal, in 1915 settled down as a Connecticut power official. At 61 the old campaigner learned to fly, in '42 was on active anti submarine patrol duty off the New England coast. He died of a heart attack in Greenwich, Conn...
...Inglés ("Let's Learn English") is a request program-for we might never have thought of the idea if so many important U.S. and Latin American officials had not written us about our Spanish-teaching program here in the U.S. (Among them were the Ambassadors of Panama, Venezuela and Uruguay, the Ministers of El Salvador, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, the Consul General of Cuba, several top-ranking radio members of the Rockefeller Committee, and scores of other dignitaries and just plain interested citizens.) And many of them asked if we could not work out a similar...