Word: panning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peace machinery that leaps into motion on the threat of war and stays in motion until peace is again obtained is the ideal that Ricardo J. Alfaro, former president of Panama, declared is needed to settle Pan-American relations. He gave the speech yesterday evening in Emerson Hall...
...addition to his college fist-flinging, he ventured into bigger circles, for in 1925 he was National Junior Champion in the 175-pound class, and in the same year was National Champion in the 175-pound class. Also in '25, he won the title of Pan American Champion. In 1926, he was again National Champion...
Promising great things, the Washington conference of 1889 crystallized Pan American sentiment and compulsory arbitration of international problems received the approval of the delegates of a majority of American nations for the first time...
...outline of the work of the succeeding conferences bemoaned the fact that selfish nations have caused retrogressions by refusing to arbitrate unless they would gain. In spite of the predominance of this feeling at the Santiago meeting in 1923, which marked the crisis in Pan American affairs, definite preparation appeared for improvement...
...Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1933 "the fears, suspicion, prejudice, and ill-will of the other days" were replaced by confidence and understanding and Pan American harmony was established...