Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broader discussion of the reasons for national rearmament came a new high-policy phrase: "Continental solidarity." The President confirmed the intimation previously voiced by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (TIME, Nov. 14): that one object of U. S. rearmament is to implement the good-neighborly understanding achieved in 1936 at the Pan-American Conference in Buenos Aires and about to be refreshed at Lima, Peru...
...knew she was the daughter of a Civil War veteran, who left her enough money to amass a valuable collection of antiques and a reputed fortune in unmounted gems. She queened it over a household composed of her aged mother, Mrs. Lucinda Trow, and her half-cousin and husband, Sumner Knox, a mild little man who had been a mail clerk, later worked in the county relief office...
...year for trying to collect $10,000 on a forged note from the estate of an eccentric Le Mars lawyer named T. M. Zink. This year Mrs. Knox knocked out the teeth of a relief official at a meeting where she was protesting the laying off of Sumner Knox. When neighbors began to note the absence of Mr. Knox and Mrs. Trow, Le Mars grew suspicious...
Dictator. Franklin Roosevelt five years ago sent aristocratic Ambassador Sumner Welles to pluck Cuba from under the heel of bloody President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado. That chunky brown soldier, Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, organized a revolt against Ambassador Welles's dummy President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, made himself Cuba's army chief and proceeded to set up and knock down presidents of his own in a way that has made Dictator Machado look almost constitutional...
...Chief of Staff Malin Craig, to attend last week's celebration of Armistice Day at Arlington National Cemetery. Boss Batista eagerly left Cuba for the first time in his 37 years, turned up with his buxom lady, several aides and a trunkful of uniforms. His old enemy Sumner Welles, now Under Secretary of State, was the first to pump his hand at Union Station. To make the welcome royal, the U. S. Army band struck up the Cuban national anthem, and with a blare of trumpets gave the beaming Colonel a full general's salute...