Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Latin America. Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade treaties with Latin America are a move to meet Europe on economic grounds: largely because of them U. S. trade increased from 40% to 90% in a year as compared with a 30% increase for Germany, 1½% for Italy. Except for Franklin Roosevelt's sensational selling tour in 1936, however, the U. S. has been too sensitive to the cry of imperialism at home and abroad to organize a U. S. export trade in ideas...
Primary season reached a peak this fortnight, with ten States going to the polls within eight days. In none except Tennessee (see p. 13) was heat generated equal to Kentucky's. The source of Kentucky's heat was a pitcher of ice water. For the closing hours of the race between Governor "Happy" Chandler and Majority Leader "Dear Alben" Barkley for the latter's Senate seat were enlivened by the "poisoning" of Candidate Chandler (TIME...
Bald "baby" Representative Jerry J. O'Connell in Montana's 1st Congressional District (western part of the State) was last week renominated by Montana Democrats. That event made little difference to most people except Montana's Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Nationally famed as a "liberal" before Mr. O'Connell, now 29, was wearing long pants, Mr. Wheeler, 56, has been pilloried as a "reactionary" by O'Connell's clamoring about the votes Burton Wheeler cast against the President's Supreme Court plan and the Government Reorganization bill. Loud Mr. O'Connell...
Sample charges: 1) That in acquiring theatre chains the major producers avoided competing in the same territories and since their output is enough to keep all theatres comfortably full, they can and do exchange pictures and actors freely, meanwhile deny such privileges to independents except upon hard terms. 2) That they insist on block-booking, full-line forcing, high rentals. 3) That as a result, independents are being driven out of business, new competitors are effectively forestalled; independent theatres cannot exercise free choice of films; independent producers find it virtually impossible to market their films; new capital investment is discouraged...
Aside from extending for two more years the International Wheat Agreement (drawn up in 1933 to limit wheat production and export), the 25 delegates from 16 nations* did nothing last week except view the outlook with much alarm. Conference experts figured that the world harvest, excluding the Soviet Union, China and Manchukuo, would total 4,205,000,000 bu., 216,000,000 bu. above the all-time record set in 1928. Especially ominous was the prospect for the U. S. Once a major wheat exporter (200,000,000 bu.), the U. S. last year sold only...