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...that Latin America wanted from its big Good Neighbor Uncle Sam last week was a little more quid for its quo. Latin America had just cause for complaint: while the American republics were shipping to the U.S. nearly all of their strategic raw materials, the U.S. had so far failed to send them enough manufactured goods to get along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Strangulation by Red Tape | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...came out of Mem Hall after your signatory ordeal feeling that you had wasted your fin (a quid to you limeys) on a Student Council donation, rest easy; it won't be wasted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contribution For Council Absolves '45 From Worries | 9/19/1941 | See Source »

...Quid-chompin' "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, 71, scraggly-mustached onetime Governor of Oklahoma, has written a book called The Finished Scholar, with a special chapter on etiquette. He explained: "If a few did not write and make the sacrifices . . . deny themselves for the future weal . . . society would wreck itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: He & She | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...come and go as he pleased within the confines of the Reich. During his captivity, 59-year-old Author Wodehouse, who was captured when he tarried too late at a cocktail party at his villa in Le Touquet in May 1940, was rated a model prisoner. But on a quid pro quo basis good conduct seemed hardly enough to warrant such great generosity from the Nazis. Then its logic appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Not Very Good, Jeeves | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

Mario Appelius "offered" Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, the Bahamas, Jamaica and Bermuda to the U. S. as part of its living space in a Fascist "new world order," and all he asked as quid pro quo was that the U. S. should recognize Europe and Asia as the Lebensraum of Germany, Italy and Japan. (La Stampa of Turin, still more generous, offered the U. S. South and Central America as "living space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Living Room for the U. S. | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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