Word: bargainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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China had lived up to her part of the bargain...
...would not work 24 hours per day while others stood idle, to reduce working hours so that more employees could find jobs, to set up a minimum wage so that sweatshop operators could not steal the market, to give labor a free hand so that it could organize and bargain collectively. Industrial minorities which refused to subscribe to majority codes could be put out of business, if necessary, by the President's power to set up a rigorous licensing system.* Any industry which failed to draft a code satisfactory to the White House could have a ready-made...
...series of Washington conferences with the producers and processors of each basic commodity to shape up an operating program on marketing agreements. If most millers consent to buy wheat from growers at $1 per bu., Secretary Wallace can suspend the anti-trust law to sanction such a bargain. If a minority group of millers refuse to join the agreement and try to beat wheat down to 80?, Secretary Wallace can, under the law. coerce them into line by suspending their Federal licenses as processors and penalizing them $1,000 each day they continue without a license. Said he: "I want...
...legs while he discussed his country's need for political security with a U. S. President whose good French made M. Herriot blush for his bad Eng- lish. On it sat large-framed Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada, whose eagerness to strike a quick trade & tariff bargain with the U. S. had to be restrained by President Roosevelt. On it next week were to sit Guido Jung, Italy's Minister of Finance, on his way to the U. S. aboard the Conte di Savoia as Premier Mussolini's personal representative, and Hjalmar Schacht. president...
...disarmament. ... At the appropriate time we should be willing to ... give a more precise indication of the manner in which we consider that the United States can most effectively co-operate." Surely here was an achievement of the White House conferences. Foreign oracles quickly interpreted this statement as a bargain between M. Herriot and President Roosevelt that the U. S. was willing to abandon its traditional Isolation and help the eternal French cry for Security in turn for real reduction in armaments and armament expenditures. That was not the only fruit of the Washington conversations to appear in Geneva...