Word: exportations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Feeling that in the past this country has neglected this most important branch of the Government, and that improvement is necessary to bring the service into accord with the dignity of our position in international affairs, the American Manufacturers' Export Association recently passed a resolution urging upon Congress the necessity for reorganization in our consular service. Not the least important among the provisions in the resolution is one calling for the establishment upon a sounder basis of the junior service and a general increase in salaries, to attract to a diplomatic career University-trained men of the highest type...
...offer a more attractive opening in the diplomatic service for university graduates and young men of ability is the aim of the American Manufacturers Export Association, one of the most powerful of the business organizations in this country. A resolution was adopted recently urging Congress for legislation to attract men of high attainment into the diplomatic service by placing salaries on a reasonable basis, freeing appointments from political influences and providing proper training for such posts...
...point emphasized by the export men is that while the rest of the world has called upon men from the universities especially trained and fitted, the United States has not offered sufficient inducement to attract men of high standing and ability. To remedy this condition and to attract university graduates who have proved their worth, the Export Association offers several suggestions: First, the formulation of proper civil service regulations to apply to the entire diplomatic and consular systems, with the single exception of ambassadors and ministers, since they are the personal representatives abroad of the administration...
...attempt to secure the co-operation of large business houses will also be made in the extension of the new courses. Export and import houses will be asked to submit specific trade problems for discussion in classes. If possible, men specializing in foreign trade will be given an opportunity to spend their summer vacations with such firms, in order to gain practical experience...
...country whose energies have been devoted quite rightly to expansion and development within its own borders," continued Professor Roorbach. "American industry has been occupied with supplying American demand. There has been little need to compete with foreign markets. Europe has sought our raw materials, and our manufactured goods for export have been limited. Hence our large export trade has grown without effort on our part. Now that manufactured goods are being produced in such large quantities, we must seek markets in competition with other manufacturing nations...