Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seminar on U. S. foreign policy were sharply pointed up by the arrival in the U. S. of an unofficial ambassador from Great Britain. The President took pains to say he would receive ex-Foreign Minister Anthony Eden as one more visiting Englishman. But it was perfectly clear that they would meet this week as one democrat talking to another in an autocrats' world, for Mr. Eden quickly made it obvious that he had come to the U. S. as an apologist for Britain. Personable Mr. Eden had many an advantage for his job. Having quit as Neville Chamberlain...
When day was done, it had spelled out a Maybe. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace called the outcome "a clear cut example of economic democracy." Of cotton farmers 82% voted their confidence in a quota-but 92% had been willing to try it for this year, when neither the U. S. surplus had piled up to the 10,000,000 bales, nor the world supply to the 51,000,000 bales reached last week. Only 56% of the tobacco farmers said Yes, less than the two-thirds necessary to invoke the quota, far less than the 86% who shouted...
...tuck with Daniel Miles, captain of the visiting aggregation, for supremacy in the high jump. Partlow made quite a mark for himself on the Freshman team last year and has been doing consistently good jumping this winter, hitting six feet one inch. Northeastern's Miles can clear the bar at six feet four inches...
Crawford--Five inches of new snow on a six inch base. Good skiing on Mt. Wildcat and on golf slopes. Temperature 5 weather clear...
...clear from the coast-to-coast returns that students as a whole would like to see Uncle Sam come to the aid of oppressed German minorities in some way, perhaps by the offering of homes in United States possessions...