Word: bargainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation." The marriage was postponed. Livingston, pertinacious, deaf, scholarly, distant relative of Franklin Roosevelt's wife, and James Monroe, whom Jefferson sent to France with instruction to do what he could to discourage Napoleon's ambitions in the New World, returned with news of an amazing bargain they had made. It ended for all time the danger of a foreign neighbor settling on the west bank of the Mississippi. They had in their pockets a contract for the Louisiana Purchase...
...White Committee based its case on a simple argument. It wanted destroyers released so that they could give the utmost service for U. S. defense. The bargain was no trade, as suggested by Senator Pittman, no question of strategy, as raised by Major Eliot, no legal labyrinth. Said William Allen White: "If the British Empire, with all the weight of its democratic economic power and its military strength and naval force, should fall, the United States would be alone in a warlike world. . . . If war is not checked and thwarted in Great Britain, war will come inevitably to the United...
Moving of the U. S. Fleet to the Atlantic means rear-guard tactics have played out. One form of action remains for the U. S.: to invite Japan to a round-table examination of the Pacific problem. Thus the U. S. might lump all its Pacific eggs, bargain on behalf of the Philippines, of The Netherlands East Indies, and even Australia, perhaps win for China better terms than are now in sight. The U. S. has much to offer hard-pressed, sorely drained Japan. The U. S. also has much to gain, including insurance of U. S. supply sources...
...Sold down the river," wailed Chairwoman Mary T. Norton of the House Labor Committee. But Bill Green could consider that he had not got the worst of the bargain. The Wagner Act's broad declaration of bargaining policy remained intact; Federation craft unions were protected against rulings by the National Labor Relations Board in favor of industrial unions. Howard Smith also kept most of what he wanted: permission for employers to talk (but not act) against unions; a new board, reduced in power and tied up in enough strings to choke it well-nigh to death. All that Green...
Taking advantage of bargain prices, many such corporations bought their own securities back from the public-in many cases, at handsome profits under liquidating values and redemption prices. Biggest corporation to announce that it would do this was the $67,200,000 Lehman Corp., whose common closed the week at 18¼. Among others doing it: Paramount Pictures, United Fruit...