Word: strengthens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of his policy to strengthen U. S. diplomacy in Central and South America, President Hoover made a seven-way shuffle of ministerial posts last week. Three "career" ministers were promoted to better posts: Evan E. Young from the Dominican Republic to Bolivia, Roy Tasco Davis from Costa Rica to Panama, Hans Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld from Bulgaria to Costa Rica. Four career secretaries were advanced to their first full envoyships when Julius Garecke Lay was named Minister to Honduras, Matthew Elting Hanna to Nicaragua, Post Wheeler to Paraguay, Charles Boyd Curtis to Santo Domingo. Known as "bright young men" about...
...assistance of such distributing organizations as are willing to cooperate, and do not let us worry about those who will not do so." U. S. oilmen, pondering this last pearl of wisdom from the Shell, wondered how much of Sir Henri's U. S. activity was designed to strengthen his international position...
...Warner '30 and C. N. Levine '30 should turn in a number of victories in their respective classes. The lighter weights, which have always been something of a problem at Harvard, will doubtless cause trouble again this year. Last year's Freshman team, however, may furnish some material to strengthen this division...
...prospect might well seem ominous to us who love the old times and associations, were it not for the great step which has just been taken in the Housing Plan. Here has come a new element which promises to preserve the College--not only preserve it-but vivify and strengthen...
...offering the portfolio of Minister of Foreign Affairs to Briand, Daladier is trying to strengthen the position of his party. The situation is one comparable to the return to power of Ramsay MacDonald in 1928, and the next three or four years should see some interesting developments in both England and France...