Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rising Sun in the Far East and plagued by strange new stars in the political firmament of Europe, last week set a hopeful course under the moon of the Caribbees. A sleek black peace ship, the Grace Liner Santa Clara, steamed southward toward ancient Lima, Peru, and the eighth Pan American Conference. Aboard were a distinguished U. S. delegation and its distinguished chairman, who at Montevideo in 1933 and at Buenos Aires in 1936 changed the Latin American picture of Uncle Sam from a giant with a club into a kindly Tennessee judge. As the Santa Clara nosed into...
...Pan-Americanism began on board as soon as the Santa Clara pushed out of Panama. Lanky, ascetic Father John F. O'Hara, President of Notre Dame University and chairman of the delegation's committee on intellectual cooperation and moral disarmament repeated his Sunday sermon in Spanish. John L. Lewis' daughter Kathryn made friends with Electrical Worker Dan Tracy of the A. F. of L. Cordell Hull, besides beating all comers in his first try at deck golf, communed long and often at the rail with Delegate Landon. The life of the party, Mr. Landon played bridge seven...
When he departed last week for Lima, Peru, to promote "continental solidarity" at the eighth Pan-American Conference, Secretary of State Cordell Hull left behind him two large blank spaces in U. S. foreign relations such as the country has not seen in many a year. Over one blank stood the name of Germany. In one of the shortest diplomatic calls on record-two minutes-German Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff said good-by to Mr. Hull before taking himself back to Germany for a stay as "indefinite" as U. S. Ambassador Wilson's (see col. 1). In addition, Secretary Hull...
...woods are full of Republican candidates," said Alf M. Landon last week before sailing from Manhattan as a delegate to the Pan-American Conference at Lima, "but here's a story for you. I think the outstanding Democratic candidate is the man [Herbert Henry Lehman] who has just been elected for the fourth time as Governor of the great State of New York. I don't see how the Democrats can pass up a man who has been elected Governor four times...
...Statesmen (Fri. 4 p. m. NBC-Blue, 4:15 p. m. CBS) sail for the Pan-American Conference at Lima, Peru. Delegates, led by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, speak from a Manhattan pier...