Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME, ever hazy about geography in the Southern half of the Western hemisphere, and often and usually garbling conditions which exist in Latin America, has on all occasions with reference to Pan American Airways versus NYRBA deliberately or ignorantly misstated. . . . The most recent-and one of the most flagrant- examples was last week's TIME report of the consolidation and the purchase of NYRBA Lines by Pan American, entitled "Exit NYRBA...
...President Hoover has attempted to improve U. S. diplomatic representation in Latin-America by appointing ministers and ambassadors there who were trained foreign service men. Such a man is Leland Harrison whom President Hoover transferred as Minister from Sweden to Uruguay over Mr. Harrison's protest. At Montevideo, listed by the State Department as one of the five most expensive posts in the world, Minister Harrison, unable to find suitable quarters elsewhere, took a hotel suite at $18,000 per year, as against a rental allowance of $3,000 per year. He began to write letters to Secretary...
Like swamp fire, revolutionary feeling snaked underground from Bolivia and Peru (see col. 3) last week, to break out in three different places in Latin America...
...patient was "neither dead nor dying." The Junta's President Sanchez Cerro thundered that "Tyrant" Leguia "must be made to account for his acts," ordered Augusto Leguia and son Juan imprisoned in the island fortress of San Lorenzo, bastille of Peru's political prisoners. Peruvians thrilled at a typically Latin touch: jailer-to-be of ex-President Leguia, commander of the guard placed over him, was a Lieutenant Alfonso Llosa just released from the same prison by the revolution after serving one year of an indefinite sentence imposed by Leguia...
...from a U.S. wife, met and lived with Sally Burch of Akron, was pursued by Jane Geddes, also from Akron who sought to redeem him. Maurice's wife came to get him, Jane's brother came to get Jane. She, however, had become hopelessly attached to life in the Latin Quarter discovering that indiscretion was the better part of squalor...