Word: se
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fear of Axis aggression and the past nine years of friendly U.S. relations, seemed to share a feeling that this time the U.S. was not a hypocritical boss but a Good Neighbor who had been attacked. Sumner Welles took a seat on the opposite side of the hall from Señor Ruiz...
Brazil's President Getulio Vargas opened the Conference with a speech calling for "the most solid and powerful alliance of free and sovereign nations that the history of humanity has ever known." Señor Ruiz Guiñazú began to fidget...
...fourth. Mrs. Stanley Mortimer Jr., daughter of the late, great Dr. Harvey Cushing, tied with the late Motor Magnate Walter Chrysler's daughter, Mrs. Byron Foy, for second place. The rest of the ten, in order: Brazil's Senhora Rodman Arturo de Heeren, Mrs. Thomas Shevlin, Señora Felipe A. Espil (wife of the Argentine Ambassador to the U.S.), Mrs. Robert W. Miller of San Francisco, Mrs. Robert Emmet Sherwood, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell. Among the runners-up for places on the list were: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt (3 votes), Gertrude Lawrence (6), Lily Pons...
Pointing to a role of growing importance for bureaucracies, Kiefer indicated that a bureaucracy per se is not undesirable. "Bureaucracy is necessary to do a big job. Harvard, with a budget larger than that of many states is a bureaucracy," he said, but also went on to warn that the actions of civil servants must be controlled, nor may pressure groups be allowed to run rampant...
...Colonel Lord's "globular survey" last week appeared to be coming out of the woods. This week EDB will present to OPM Venezuela's itemized 1942 needs for strategic materials and machinery. No non-strategic items were included, and the list was pared to the bone by Señores Mendoza and Boulton, rechecked by Colonel Lord's office. The agreed-upon total (10% less than Venezuela's actual purchases of similar U. S. materials in 1940): $39,543,700 worth of goods, ranging from $30,000 in steel doors for the vaults...