Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blunt, hard-headed Walter Runciman. president of Britain's Board of Trade, called in Japan's Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira one day last week and gave him a strange ultimatum: Either the Japanese Government agree to divide the world's markets for cotton and silk cloth equably with Britain, or Britain would keep Japanese cloth out of Britain and its colonies by means of import quotas based on what Japan sold during the 1927-31 period. Ambassador Matsudaira passed the ultimatum on to his Government which presently sent back word that Japan wanted to think it over...
...Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace acted late today to tighten enforcement of cotton reduction contracts after being informed that the acreage control program was working injustices to tenant farmers and was causing increased unemployment in the South...
...Chairman of Arkansas' Penal Board went to the farm, talked to the men-mules, tried pulling one of the cotton planters. He decided that Superintendent Stedman was right, it was no harder than usual farm work. But Arkansas' Governor Futrell felt differently. If draft work was not a cruel and unusual punishment, it was, he decided, at least too conspicuous. He ordered it stopped...
...wreck the Indian Reform Bill, Tory Churchill was counting heavily on the report of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce relative to British exports of cotton to the Far East and the menace of Japanese rivalry. The report when it finally broke "turned out to be only a feeble...
...welcome the chance," said he, "to prove once again that Mr. Churchill has found a mare's nest. Practically every one of the statements he has just made are without foundation. . . . Because of the unfortunate effect it would have upon negotiations in progress in India between a Lancashire cotton mill delegation and Indian cotton interests regarding the problem of Japanese competition, the Lancashire delegation cabled the Manchester committee from India to change its evidence...