Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work would begin by negotiating a series of mutual pledges by which states would "bind themselves to abstain from a certain number of practices contrary to the interests of the community of participants" and further "bind themselves one toward the other to take up and to examine in a spirit of understanding and mutual assistance the problems and difficulties arising in their economic relations...
...shocked Chairman Leo Thomas Crowley was pleased with his year's handiwork. Popping up in Baton Rouge before the Louisiana Bankers Conference, he declared: "We both have sizable sums wagered on the ability of American banks to live down the unsavory aspects of their past record and to begin a long era of sound and profitable operation...
...when Poet Goga was Minister of Interior, he conducted what is still remembered as "Rumania's most corrupt election," and won. Last week, he prepared for the Rumanian election scheduled to begin March...
...insurance. Up to last week few people ever expected anyone to sell it in slot machines. The In-surograph Agency of America, incorporated in Kansas for that surprising purpose, is the notion of a small group of Wichita businessmen. In about two weeks Standard Register Co. of Dayton will begin manufacturing machines for them to put in railway and bus stations...
When the House of Representatives convenes today, it will begin the discussion of the Ludlow War Referendum Amendment, another in the modern series of peace panaceas. Like so many similar plans, it is totally impractical. Like all attempts to paralyze further American foreign policy, it is potentially harmful to the very cause it wishes to promote. Congress can never legislate peace, and the longer it continues to try, the nearer will be second World...