Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patino. For many years Sefior Patino has run Bolivian politics from Paris, married his daughters to French and Spanish nobility, enjoyed extraterritoriality (and freedom from income taxes) as Bolivia's Minister to France. For several months he has been appearing and disappearing in the U. S. tin picture, uncertain where to settle. Last week, he settled in a six-room suite at the Waldorf-Astoria...
...adding to its fleet-or when and whether the British Navy would fall to enemies of the U. S. As of last week, the U. S.'s "Big Navy" was just big enough to keep its defensive watch in the Pacific and a small squadron in the uncertain Atlantic. Its 15 battleships made up the most powerful battle line of any navy, but the average dreadnought age is 23 years. Three were so far outdated that Congress was asked to vote money to modernize their guns and armor. In the impressive total of destroyers were 109 World...
...Defense program, they would have preferred to hand business a bigger price tag with no package at all. Objection 2 came from the conservative wing, some of whose members also objected - for a different reason - to tying the tax bill to the depreciation and Vinson-Trammell "bribes." Their case: uncertain ty about depreciation and a profit ceiling is delaying the Defense program. Those provisions should therefore be passed immediately, so that Congress can take its time discussing the excess-profits tax. The tax will not be collected until 1941 in any case. But this opposition did not follow strict party...
Inter-American Conference is a critical one, Latin-American unity is important-though uncertain. And yet a local Mexican politician, resentfully repudiated by the mass of the Mexican people is made out a hero by your correspondent...
...Labor in the person of C. I. O.'s John Lewis identified conscription with dictatorship ("Democracy must offer its own way of life to combat the forces which imperil civilization today"). Caught between his instinct to oppose John Lewis and his aversion to any politically uncertain controversy. A. F. of L.'s William Green hesitated, finally came out against compulsory training until it becomes "necessary to defend, protect and preserve America...