Word: parallels
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Only 32, Taborda is an outstanding statesman in South America since he holds the positions of Secretary in the Radical Party Bloc, National Deputy from the district of Buenos Aires, and President of the Special Congressional Committee Investigating anti-Argentine Activities, a close parallel to the chairmanship held by the Texas representative...
...succeeded by Adolfo de la Guardia, while Inside Latin America was in the press, the chapter on Panama is slightly dated. But there are excellent sidelights on Arias and some disturbing pages on the vulnerability of the Canal. People usually forget that there is no road across the Isthmus parallel to the Canal. "The Panama Railway (which is owned and operated by the United States) had, by charter, the right to veto any proposal for a highway that would cut into its lucrative business." President Roosevelt has ordered work begun on a road...
...with the hunch that there are three cultural compartments and then amassed evidence to back the hunch. But it is possible to start out with the different theory of a linear, progressive history of Western civilization and amass evidence to prove it, or to take a theory of parallel lines of development. Sorokin's evidence to prove his oscillation among dominant types is far from conclusive...
Along the 60th parallel, on the chilled hell's highway of the north Atlantic, the U.S. last week lost the illusion that it was not engaged in a shooting...
...which with Swarthmore, Vassar, and Mt. Holyoke organizations forms the Student League for Progressive Action, will become the local chapter. The Student Defenders of Democracy and the Committee to Defend America will bring 90 chapters into the fold. All three groups have platforms which exactly parallel that of the HLU, so that the national program that will be decided upon next December 27 at the University of Michigan is easily predictable. It will be prolabor but anti-defense-strike, strongly outspoken for domestic democracy, but definitely interventionist and bitterly anti-Hitler. Non-interventionist liberals will not be excluded, however...