Word: latinity
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Executive Committees of the Communist International and Pro-fintern (Red International of Trade Unions), replaced by William Foster as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. Back in the U. S. a month later, he refused the CPU's offer of a job in Latin America to keep his mouth shut, was kicked out altogether...
...Routine was the move of dry, pedantic, bespectacled George Messersmith from his post as Assistant Secretary to Ambassador to Cuba, a post of growing importance in Latin-American relations. A onetime high-school superintendent, Diplomat Messersmith successfully conceals 25 years of diplomatic experience (Vienna, Buenos Aires, Berlin, etc.) under the manner, bearing and speech of a high-school superintendent...
...Dealers are not a showy lot, but none matches the official simplicity of Jacksonian Mr. Secretary Hull. At Montevideo for his first major Latin American conference, an hour after the boat docked, with hat in hand he was trudging about the town, informally calling on the delegates, meticulously mispronouncing their names. He would knock on the door, say "I'm Hull of the U. S." and begin chatting. Astounded, then charmed by this informality, delegates from the banana republics laid aside their silk hats and silk manners, forgot their jealousy and hatred for the Colossus of the North...