Word: superably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Super State. Through the Panama conference in 1826 Bolivar had tried in vain to build a league against the despotism of the Old World. Sixty-three years later U.S. Secretary of State James G. Blaine headed the first modern Pan American conference in Washington, in hopes of building a hemispheric trade system based on a newly industrialized U.S. For all the oratory, nothing much happened until World War II turned the system into a virtual Good Neighbors' alliance. It had been Bogotá's job to make the wartime relationship permanent...
...conference been worth holding? Many an editor thought not. Addressing the annual luncheon of the Associated Press, lean Lord Rothermere, publisher of the London super-Tory Daily Mail, complained:* "We have now in Geneva gratuitously provided a platform [where] the enemies of freedom may pour out their torrents of dialectical abuse, wasting the time and wearing the patience of all men of good will...
Situation: Precarious. The talk easily turned to politics. The President admitted that Bronx Boss Ed Flynn and New York State Democratic Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick had paid a super-secret call to discuss the New York political situation, and insisted that they had left happy. Reporters learned later that Flynn had shown the President an advance copy of a resolution he introduced at a meeting of New York's convention delegates, in which Truman's domestic policy was praised and his Palestine policy damned. The delegates themselves were uninstructed; the New York situation was unsettled at best...
...will soon have a new cathedral, California-style. Its cost, announced last week, was unexpectedly modest ($1,100,000). Other features were characteristically impressive. Unique item: a 195-ft.-long painting of Calvary by Polish Artist Jan Styka, said to contain 5,000 figures. Location: the Hollywood-serving, super de luxe convertible graveyard, Forest Lawn Memorial-Park (where it will replace the "Tower of Legends," a landmark since 1924). Denomination: none...
...problem is still baffling. No matter how massive the screen (one of the biggest: 65 by 50 ft.), or how super-powerful the water-cooled projection equipment, a good many people have to sit almost a thousand feet from the screen, and have trouble seeing details. The ozoners had not yet found a way around that...