Word: furthering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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President General Alfredo Baldomir accepted an invitation to President Roosevelt's proposed inter-American economic conference to try to see how far the hemisphere's abundance might be traded within the hemisphere (see p. 12). He went even further, suggested a Pan-American conference of ministers of war...
> The pro-Fascist elements of Brazilian President Getulio Dornelles Vargas' epochal speech, later disclaimed (TIME, June 24), were further minimized by Foreign Minister Dr. Oswaldo Aranha's cry of "America for the Americans." Still more soothing were the words in Washington of visiting Major Napoleao Alencastro Guimaraes, aide...
In the Rhone Valley 1,000 members of the Foreign Legion performed the most reckless "Beau Geste" of all at the fortresses of Joux and L'Ecluse. These strongholds, cut into shoulders of the Jura Mountains above Bellegarde near the Swiss frontier, dominate a series of narrow gorges where...
The nonmoral reason was more realistic. Russia. No. 1 world producer of manganese (indispensable to steel making), normally supplies a third of U. S. manganese needs. Having no manganese stockpile to speak of, the State and War Departments are now trying to lay hands on all the manganese they can...
> A heads-I-win-tails-you-lose proposal would base tax valuations on earning power of the property. Thus unimproved land having no annual income would pay no taxes. Sometimes called the "British System," it would up the value of vacant land, cause further urban decentralization because it puts no...