Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western Hemisphere is half the world; in it are 21 republics who want no part in World War II. Last week 21 men assembled in Panama to chart a course of continental neutrality-and, from that, continental solidarity...
...wall keeps things in, as well as out. With that in mind, the first emergency conference of the Western Hemisphere's nations moved swiftly to build within that wall not only a "citadel of democracy" but a joint economy. With overseas markets wiped out overnight or too dangerous to reach, the 21 representatives agreed to establish in Washington for the duration of the war a committee empowered to act rapidly in all emergencies to lessen the war's effects in the Western Hemisphere-and, more significantly, to give counsel to their Governments on joint means of stabilizing currencies...
When the full committee filed in around the baize-covered table, they found before them one of the tightest prohibition bills in history-a bill in effect forbidding any U. S. citizen from leaving the Western Hemisphere while war raged outside...
...must win four out of five games. A rookie pitcher must start the ball rolling today and his team must score a run sooner or later. Drastic measures may have to be taken if things start breaking badly. If all fails, Kenesaw Mountain Landis should set up the Western Hemisphere Series and conform to the feeling of the times. Let the damn Yankees keep their title and send the Red Sox against Cincinnati in a snow series...
However, the anticlimax is not likely to be so great as it might be because there is some talk of having a post-season race next spring between the Eastern and the Western crews. If this plan should come through it is still apt to be relatively unimportant compared to the projected Olympic trials and in many colleges it will probably not be the climax point of the season, particularly in the case of Harvard and Yale...