Word: yes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen such a speaker. He cracked jokes, talked fast, talked slow, beat his chest with his fists, waved his arms in circles, crouched, whirled, broke off his most telling sentences to invite applause. In the hall of Panama City's Inter-American University, Panamanian students roared approval. Yes, they liked the man from Peru, Victor Raul Haya de la Torre...
...story of the 20th Century too vast and confusing for the men who were trying to report it? Earnest, grey-haired Sevellon Brown thought the answer was an emphatic Yes. Like many a publisher with a conscience, he had an uneasy feeling that the press was falling down on its job. The daily montages of headlines, in his Providence Journal and Bulletin and elsewhere, were nagging proof that the times demanded better papers, bigger and broader newsmen-on penalty of chaos...
...Yes, said the directors. In effect, this was a U.S. concession made to allay British fears over their vital export trade, which might easily be ruined, as it was in the late '20s, by pegging the pound too high. Even though revaluations of more than 10% would still require Fund approval, some economists groused that the Fund's chief club against the practice of "exporting unemployment" had now been whittled down to twig-size. But it was an easy concession for the U.S. to make. With wages and other costs skyrocketing, the U.S. might wake...
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