Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...holds that any foreign government has the right to impose whatever duties it sees fit, but that the treatment it offers should not discriminate against any country. In other words, it upholds the principle of most-favored-nation treat-ment,* i. e., that all countries should automatically receive equal tariff treatment. But this does not mean that the treatment between two countries can be equal, because of the difference in purchasing powers, price levels, commodities, etc. In illustration of this the U. S. note pointed out that 95% of imports from Brazil are admitted duty free, but that a large...
...Harper '30, a quartet of hard, speedy runners from last year's Freshman team, to draw on in forming his backfield combinations. In recent years the most successful offensives have been built around two, or, in some cases three, sets of high class backs which have been almost equal in strength and versatility. A glance at the array of backs mentioned above indicates the possibility of such a situation at Harvard this year. Let us consider the various backfield combinations as they now stand...
...most brilliant of the University backs. But French has not entirely recovered from an infected knee which has been bothering him this fall, and it is improbable that he will see more than a few minutes of action today. Whether the coaches want to develop two nearly equal backfields as they did last year, and will for this reason keep French out of the first combination after he is fully recovered, is a question that it is impossible to answer at present...
...TIME, Sept. 19), the French government countered skillfully. It declined to entertain the U. S. proposal for a treaty of amity and commerce modeled on the one recently concluded with Germany (TIME, Aug. 29). In other words France refused to give the U. S. most-favored nation treatment (rates equal to the lowest accorded to any other nation) because the U. S. makes no similar concession to any country...
...England went to make up Harvard College; those elements have yet to depreciate in value. Since then, since the foundation of what was initially purely a New England institution, foreign ingredients have been introduced and it is the opinion of not a few that these new constituents mingle on equal ground with the original ones. And it Puritan bigotry has been rejected in favor of a cosmopolitan liberalism, the fire of Puritan inspiration burns no less brightly...