Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within the past five months, two moves in the Good Neighbor (or Hemisphere Solidarity) policy of Franklin Roosevelt were to raise Colombia and Venezuela, the two countries on South America's northern corner, from ministerial to ambassadorial status in U. S. diplomatic ranking. Last week the State Department promoted Pan ama President Roosevelt named as U. S. Ambassador there his Minister to Uruguay...
...churchmen perennially watch for signs of a U. S. religious revival, are perennially pleased to think they see such signs. An unkind blow were two surveys of U. S. opinion released this week. Not conclusive (because neither provided any conclusive comparison with the past), they were nevertheless far from encouraging...
...highly censorable picture that made Hedy Lamarr famous, got her a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was Ecstasy, made in Czechoslovakia in 1933. Last week cinema columnists suddenly discovered that the director of Ecstasy, Gustav Machaty, has for the past two years also been under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, for whom he has turned out one low-budget picture called Within the Law. Cause of the discovery: Director Machaty's announcement, on the expiration of his contract, that he intended to make a sequel called The Girl of Ecstasy, conforming to the Hays production code and starring...
...historians have edged past tall, sonorous-voiced, peg-legged Gouverneur Morris with only a furtive nod. Only biographer with nerve enough to write a friendly word of him was roughriding Teddy Roosevelt. And T. R.'s biography of Morris (1888) made little splash...
Professor Robinson will be sixty-eight next month and has been eligible to retire on pension for the past two years. He has taught Celtic and early English Literature at Harvard since...