Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mentioned in the published summaries was taken to mean, not that they were omitted from the agreement, but that Canada wanted to avoid lobbying in Parliament and an inrush of goods for sale. U. S. motorcar manufacturers were delighted to learn that no agreement was reached increasing the "Empire content" of assembled products (in Canada, 50%; in Britain...
...object to the Reichswehr being thrown into the struggle of internal politics. That I reject any sort of political dictatorship I made clear in my recent radio talk. . . . Can the outside world expect the German people to be content with existing conditions? On the contrary there is reason for wondering that the German people bear their terrible distress so calmly and with such discipline. ... A country treated for 13 years as a pariah by the outside world simply had to forfeit the respect of its own people...
...Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett could be said to have "seized leadership" of the Conference last week, he did so by demanding that the Mother Country and other parts of the British Commonwealth join Daughter Canada in stipulating that the "Empire-content" in materials & labor of Empire goods shall be not less than...
...Mother Country, in the Irish Free State and in South Africa an assembled U. S. product (such as a motor car) can now get by as "British" with an Empire content of only 25%. New Zealand like Canada stipulates 50%. Australia is the most patriotic of all in this respect...
...Leopold Stennett Amery, onetime Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs in Great Britain, today a lobbyist. "We," said Col. Amery. "are not advocating anything so extreme as the old Bryan formula of 16 to one.* But much would be accomplished if governments would put a better silver content into their subsidiary coins and if they would allow their central banks to hold some silver as a backing for their currency issues...