Word: credited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian churches of the U. S., feminists give much credit for the emancipation of U. S. women. Yet in church matters women are still denied equality with men. A few large churches* ordain women as ministers, but few women ever get important appointments as pastors...
...fisticuffers: Gene Tunney and Max Baer. Like Baer, the hero of The Crowd Roars kills an adversary in the ring. Like Tunney, he reads the classics, speaks careful English and falls in love with a socialite. Smooth direction by Richard Thorpe and a tightly integrated narrative, for which major credit goes to Screenwriter George Bruce, weld these and the rest of the paraphernalia of all fight films-bigshot gamblers, fight fixers, snarling reporters-into racy, raucous entertainment, as insignificant and as lively as tomorrow's sports page. Best characterization: Frank Morgan as the hero's whiskey-soaked, lazy...
...Leftist Spain. No fervent orator, however, went so far as to demand the alternative: that Spanish Rightist bombers be fired upon by Britons. As members sped to their homes, the Spanish War remained the subject on which the House has wasted most words at this session, but to the credit of M. P.s was much work done...
Assistance for U. S. exports was made necessary by three great post-War changes -the building of huge tariff walls, the U. S. shift from a debtor to a creditor nation and the establishment by competing nations of export credit agencies. With almost every foreign nation in debt to the U. S., none had money to buy U. S. products; and the U. S. banking system, developed for a debtor nation, had no machinery for providing foreign buyers with long-term credits. The first Export-Import Bank was created by Franklin Roosevelt in 1934 to fill the need for Russia...
These deals have ranged over the globe from Iran to Venezuela. Henceforth, there is likely to be an increasing volume in South America, for there the export credit bureaus of Germany and Italy have lately raised havoc with U. S. trade by government-sponsored credit leniency. Thwarting these two dictatorships is close to Franklin Roosevelt's heart (see p. 8) and in this instance it fits perfectly with the bank's purpose. Last-week, therefore...