Word: adjusters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weygand?" Every morning when the late great Marshal Ferdinand Foch reached his fusty little office he would lean his umbrella in the corner, adjust his spectacles and call out as he sat down to work, "Et Maintenant, Où est mon Weygand...
...have a finger in the final settlement, peaceful or otherwise. Apart from the Anti-War Pact, by which Argentina and Brazil led South America a long step on the road to peace, the other nine "treaties" signed by Presidents Justo and Vargas, some of them mere agreements, served to adjust local issues between the A & B countries and stimulate their trade. Among other things the two Presidents abolished mutual visa charges and tourist taxes, provided for an annual Brazilian Exposition in Argentina, an Argentine Exposition in Brazil. Finally the A & B countries agreed to revise their school textbooks, striking...
...TIME, Sept. 4). By it the exporting countries agreed to divide between them a total export quota of 560,000,000 bushels of wheat for the coming year, and cut their exportable production 15% for 1934-35. The agreement runs until July 31, 1935, provides an advisory committee to adjust quotas. Importing nations agree to lower their tariffs when the world wheat price has reached 63.08? gold (89? Roosevelt) and stayed there four months...
...good slice of the local press, directed the fight on Mayor Hoan. Put up to oppose him in the recall election was 25- year-old Fortney Stark, onetime secretary of the Real Estate Board. Said he: "This recall movement is the culmination of three years' steadfast refusal to adjust the expenditures of the city government to meet declining revenues." The recallers favored a 25% wage cut for teachers, firemen, policemen...
...promptly announced that President Roosevelt would seek a special law from the next session of Congress to adjust Government contracts to NRA costs and thus get around the McCarl ruling...