Word: panning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years in Moscow, served as one of the Communist International's Far Eastern experts. He was a disciple of the late Sen Katayama (once a Comintern agent in the U.S.), who was so violently anti-American that German Geopolitician Karl Haushofer gave his views a special classification-revolutionary pan-Asiatism of the "Katayama type...
...hottest bands in all the land has never been heard by the public. But Tin Pan Alley knows it well as Brick Fleagle's Rehearsal Band, vaguely describes it as a "jazz workshop." Brick's band consists of 16 key musicians from top-ranking bands who meet once a week to improve their techniques by moaning & groaning the blues and blaspheming the classics with arrangements too torrid for laymen's ears. One suitably muggy morning last week, Brick's boys cut their first commercial discs, "a blues, a mood and two jumpers"-which the Hot Record...
These maneuvers were on the quiet. Far from quiet was the clamor against Padilla as a too obedient friend of the U.S. State Department. In the interest of Pan-American unity, he had favored admitting Argentina to the United Nations conference at San Francisco. Anti-U.S. feeling, always smoldering in Mexico, recently burst into flame with a series of speeches and newspaper articles against Padilla. His collaboration with the U.S., they charged, had turned into "entreguismo" (selling out). A damaging rumor went the rounds-that U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith was urging President Harry S. Truman...
...international air policy. The policy: regulated competition on international routes, instead of a chosen instrument. Without waiting any longer for Congress to act, President Truman approved the choice of the Civil Aeronautics Board for airlines to fly the Atlantic. As expected (TIME, July 9), the routes were granted to Pan American Airways, Transcontinental & Western Air, and American Export Airlines; American Airlines got permission to buy control of American Export Airlines...
...extended Pan Am's present route to London, via Bermuda, through Europe and the Near East to Calcutta. American Export, which now flies to Foynes, Ireland, and Lisbon, was given two north Atlantic routes and will fly all the way to Moscow. T.W.A. was also given two routes, one via Newfoundland and Foynes to Bombay, the other via Lisbon and Rome to Cairo...