Word: latinizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomatic recognition to Col. Luis Sanchez Cerro who had just turned Dictator-President Augusto Bernardino Leguia of Peru out of office (see p. 22). The question was ticklish. The accepted U. S. doctrine formulated in 1923 by Charles Evans Hughes as Secretary of State, was to recognize only those Latin American governments which come into power by constitutional means. A complication in the Peruvian situation was the fact that the revolutionaries held Commander Harold Grow, U. S. citizen, commander of the Leguia air forces, and were threatening to court martial, perhaps execute him. While President Hoover and Statesman Stimson decided...
...years' able foreign service. As a career man, he rose to be U. S. Ambassador to Chile (1914), Mexico (1916-20), Belgium (1922-24), Italy (1924-29), served as Assistant Secretary of State (1921-22) in charge of economic matters. The commercial aspects of international relations especially in Latin America have had much of his time and attention. He resigned as Ambassador at Rome last year, disappointed, some said, because the Hoover Administration had apparently neglected...
Little Accident (Universal). The Elizabethans borrowed from old Latin and Greek plays a comic formula in which an arrangement of young lovers is shuffled, after difficulties, so that each character comes out at the end with a different partner. The formula has been successful in every later generation of the theatre whenever playwrights could think of new devices for causing suspicion, love and mistaken identity. In this instance the device is the birth of a child to the first wife of a young man (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) who is about to be married a second time. It is a homely...
Professor Augustine Valdemaras is not only Lithuania's most enterprising politician but also its most spectacular citizen. As student and later Wartime professor of Greek and Latin in Petrograd he led the agitation in Russia for Lithuanian Independence. Escaping from Russia during the Revolution he appeared as Lithuania's chief delegate at the Paris Peace Conference (1919-20) where he made a reputation for himself by incessantly demanding the Port of Vilna (Poland) for Lithuania. Returning to his homeland, he became Prime Minister, then Dictator in 1926. Not long before he lost his dictatorship an attempt was made to assassinate...
...stamps (29,800) were speedily sold. Letters from the facetious, protests from puritans flooded the Spanish Postoffice, the International Postal Union. Plaints ranged from statements that what is art in Latin countries is obscenity in the Nordic north, to threats of official proceedings against the Spanish Government for sending obscene matter through the mails. To the postal union wrote a Swiss zealot...