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Pan American Union

American  

noun

  1. a former organization of American republics dedicated to furthering understanding and peace: replaced in 1970 by the secretariat of the Organization of American States.


Pan American Union British  

noun

  1. the secretariat and major official agency of the Organization of American States

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He took jobs as a newsboy, cannery and packing shed laborer, social work aide, interpreter, Boys Club organizer, elementary school teacher, co-director of a progressive elementary school and education specialist with the Pan American Union.

From Salon • Aug. 7, 2021

In Washington's white-marbled Pan American Union building last week, frock-coated representatives of Nicaragua and Costa Rica squiggled their signatures on a treaty of friendship.

From Time Magazine Archive

So last week, in a meeting at Washington's Pan American Union, the Organization of American States voted 18 to 0 to withdraw the 8,000 OAS peace-keeping troops still in the Dominican Republic.

From Time Magazine Archive

His show of 43 ink drawings and watercolors at Washington's Pan American Union caused one old lady to ask: "How can you be so young and so morbid?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Uncle Ted has influence at Washington, with the Pan American Union, and so on––why, we can get anything we want!

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis