Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany and Russia, have moved in, and Mexicans, familiar with only the weaknesses of democracy, were willing to heed Communist doctrine or to see the beauty of Nazi ideology and particularly Nazi financial favors. Today, while guns roar in Europe, both Nazis and Communists are solidly entrenched below the Rio Grande, and with a national election on July 7 at stake, Mexico faces a crisis...
...Martin Dies of the Dies Committee said he had "incontrovertible information" that German experts had laid out and equipped 26 camouflaged airplane landing fields along the border. Mexicans from President Cárdenas to the poorest peon knew that a fifth column was on the march south of the Rio Grande. They also knew that its immediate object was not to prepare Mexico for the advent of Adolf Hitler but to keep Uncle Sam out of Europe by keeping him busy in his own backyard...
...military commitments . . . which the U. S. has almost silently accepted is not yet appreciated by the public." Buell's analysis of these commitments (annual cost now $2,200,000,000) is extraordinarily complete. Sample fact of "hemisphere defense": Washington is no farther from Prague than from Rio de Janeiro. Buell shows that though the Good Neighbor policy and U. S. pledges to Canada may seem simple continentalism in the Beard sense, they are actually world commitments in the modern world...
Professor Herbert Heaton, of the University of Minnesota, now visiting professor at Princeton, will give a free public lecture at Harvard Business School tomorrow afternoon (Wed.) on "Rolling Down to Rio, or a Merchant Adventurer in South America," at 4 o'clock in Room 120, Baker Library...
...Spanish boys are left in charge of their farm in the Rio Grande valley and of their mother, who is in labor. The adobe house is cold; they need skins to keep themselves and the new baby warm. Taking their father's musket they ride into the mountains, are separated in a blizzard, learn more of themselves and of each other in danger, return proudly with skins of mountain cats, a wolf, a bear...