Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian purchases for a sizable amount of her trade, objected to such an outspoken attack on her totalitarian customers. Mr. Hull, unwilling to compromise President Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy by insisting that the U. S. have its way, allowed Argentina to substitute a pact which specified no particular kind of "foreign intervention." Then Brazil, traditional South American rival of Argentina, balked at accepting the leadership of her southern neighbor. Finally, a second, slightly rephrased Argentine draft was accepted...
...years of Soviet rule are the thousands of White refugees who sit at café tables in Paris, their "capital," where they make a living driving taxis, waiting on tables or trading on their tarnished nobility. But last week it was surprisingly revealed that a great number are particular about how they get back...
...come with resolutions to propose, and most of the others were willing to accept them-with reservations. They were willing to endorse hemispheric defensive military cooperation from the U. S.-but no military alliances. They were willing to damn totalitarianism in general-but no specific totalitarian state in particular. ("The position of America is one of collaboration, not rebuke," said General Benavides.) They were willing to accept the principle of Argentina's strictures against disruptive foreign political movements-but those who still clung to the principle of civil liberties could not accept it in detail. The South and Central...
...Rugged, ruddy Walter Gropius has been at Harvard two years and is now the popular chairman of the Department of Architecture. He helped assemble last week's show, found its success satisfying for one reason in particular...
...Leverett, as "one of my oldest friends," George had little to say about himself. He considers the House Plan, which he has watched from its infancy, to have proven a success. "It brings out the best in the boys and makes them a fine, democratic group," he said, reserving particular praise for the Rabbits...