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Argentina had declared war on the Axis. Now, by underwriting the obligations (and pious hopes) of the Act of Chapultepec, she made herself internationally respectable, diplomatically recognizable...
Glittering Mr. Johnston smoothly turned away any suggestions that the ultimate aim of the new board is to replace the War Labor Board. But both labor & management were well aware that the group, if it is to be anything more than a sounding board for pious platitudes, will have to take a hand in the shaping of any national labor policy by Congress...
Died. Maximino Avila Camacho, 52, Mexican Secretary of Communications and strident, notorious elder brother of Mexico's pious President; of a heart attack; in Puebla, Mexico. The death of the aggressively ambitious onetime cowhand, bullfighter and revolutionary left few sincere mourners among his countrymen...
Lieut. General Sir William George Shedden ("Old Dob Dob") Dobbie, 66, pious, pink-cheeked, former Governor and Commander of the bomb-torn Island of Malta (until he retired in 1942), arrived in the U.S. to begin a series of lectures sponsored by the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Crusading Puritan Dobbie hopes to cement U.S.-British relations...
...Other Hand. "Among their weak points is their spirit of sanctimoniousness (they look on themselves as pious crusaders and do-gooders); their knowledge of the outside world is primitive; there are social distinctions among them and they are totalitarian in their own way. Their points of strength are that they have a good military force, estimated at around 600,000,* and there is more democracy in their territory than in the rest of China...