Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Short Notice. Astounding as it was that Adolf Hitler, exponent of Pan-Germanism, should relinquish so lightly one of the oldest European outposts of German commerce and culture, the details of this mass migration were even more amazing. The Balts first learned that they were to be sent back to Germany on a Saturday, when German diplomats first broached the subject to the Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian Governments. On Sunday a special German Commission to arrange details arrived at Riga. On Friday ten German merchant vessels, the first contingent of 42 specially chartered ships, steamed into Riga Harbor to take...
...between the two Americas." A knowledge of Bolívar, he believes, would go far to explain South Americans' history and temperament, particularly their tendency toward dictatorship. For it was that tendency which set Bolívar's main problems, finally wrecked his great dream of a pan-American union...
...smaller countries would not feel dominated) began issuing statements, as President Juan Demosthenes Arosemena of Panama polished up a speech of welcome, the U. S. got busy backstage. Casually, as if its perfect timing were just a happy coincidence, the New York World's Fair put on a Pan American Day, at which, by chance, Cordell Hull was scheduled to speak. In the Fair's Court of Peace, Secretary of State Hull gave a quiet, drawling speech in favor of justice, fair dealing, mutual respect, cooperation, solidarity. A better showman was New York's Mayor Fiorello...
Best bets for swift, sure crossing were the U. S. Lines or Pan American Airways. Pan American Clippers still flew twice a week, but they were booked heavily weeks ahead. U. S. Lines operated on full schedules, stepped up their sailings to evacuate 5,000 U. S. citizens still stranded in Europe. But their seamen, striking for 25% wage increase, war-risk life insurance and bonuses, delayed some eight liners nearly a week...
...Roland Greene Usher's Pan-Germanism. Said Professor Usher: "Needless to say, the European war will not involve the United States in hostilities...