Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another phase was reached in the tariff deadlock between France and the U. S. (TIME, Sept. 19 et seq.) when the French government last week answered the U. S. protest against the new French tariff schedule, which Washington holds discriminates against U. S. goods...
Infallibly dapper, invariably chipper, insistently funny, Mayor James John Walker of New York City completed the legend of insouciance abroad (TIME, Aug. 29 et seq.) and sailed from France for the U. S., with Mrs. Walker. But before he left he- ¶ Addressed the American Legion in Paris. "I am authorized by law and by chance," he said, "to bring you the felicitations of the people of New York and to carry across the Atlantic their heart throbs that they may mingle with you in spirit. I want you to feel that your purposes will be their purposes...
Warning. The U. S. Government last week answered the French tariff thesis (TIME, Sept. 19 et seq.) and sounded a note of warning against what it called "dis-crimination" against U. S. goods. The note gave a detailed explanation of the U. S. tariff law. It opposed firmly the principle of reciprocity and demanded that France grant the U. S. most-favored-nation treatment under pain of sanctions authorized by Article No. 317 of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act, which empowers the President to increase by 50% the duties on the goods of a nation discriminating against...
Blood analysts were to be called in, and anthropometrists, finger print experts, palmists, et...
...allow their private affairs--of which their budget is certainly one--to be placed even on the more or less confidential files of the Bureau. And it is annoying, if nothing else, to have to fill out blanks about one's personal affairs, home address, father's name, and et cetera and ad absurdum. No intelligent employer will ask for such information and the sole purpose accomplished by the Bureau in requiring it is to make the sensitive applicant more sensitive and the independent applicant more determined to keep to himself what concerns only himself. The sensitive soul will fill...