Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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China's is the only Government which cheerfully and publicly buys off its political foes, generally with much heroic haggling. Last week a glorious bargain was finally struck by agents of the shrill little Chinese Generalissimo, wasp-waisted Chiang Kaishek. To get this most vital haggle started the agents had to go to British Hongkong and blandish their way into a strongly built house protected by elaborate iron gratings and guarded day and night by heavily armed Sikh police from India...
Since the Federal Government began paying $35 an ounce for gold last January, Treasury assay & mint offices at New York, Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, New Orleans and Seattle have been doing a bargain-counter business with the general public. People who paid $20.67 an oz. for the gold in their false teeth, loving cups, medals, belt buckles, mesh bags, spoons and watch chains have been cashing in this scrap to make a 75% profit. Last week the Treasury announced that from Jan. 31 to June 22 receipts of scrap gold at the mints and assay offices had exceeded newly mined...
...will, in fact if not in theory, abolish the other half as to hours and wages. There is strong and uncontrollable opinion among the complying members of the code that . . . the Administration's announcement practically amounts to notice that the Government will not perform its part of the bargain...
Thoroughly dissatisfied, the representatives left for home to get the necessary approval of the creditors. President J. Reuben Clark of the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council called the new formula "not fair, just and equitable to the American bondholders," charged that certain European governments still had a chance to bargain for full servicing on their bonds. The Swiss and Dutch creditors flatly rejected the formula...
...matter of business, the outgrowth of El Salvador's acute need of new markets for her coffee. ... If America bought more than 20% of our coffee exports, of course, El Salvador would have less need for new outlets." In return for favors, El Salvador had a nice bargain to offer Japan. The Salvadorean constitution expressly forbids the immigration of Chinese and Mongolians, but, said Consul General Siguenza, exceptions will be made for subjects of Manchukuo...