Word: exports
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farm Bureau glad hander, spoofed them and slapped their backs to get them in good humor. After a brief session with Secretary Wallace, the farm leaders retired to draft a plan. Meanwhile, at a press conference President Roosevelt outlined the plan which the farm leaders were about to draft. Export subsidies were unthinkable, he explained, because, "We must avoid any national policy which will result in shipping our soil fertility to foreign nations." Conservation of the soil must be the keynote of U. S. agricultural policy...
...However, I feel that we are justified in helping the farmer and can do it by giving him security, lower interest rates, and reduced taxes. This will please the farmer and the consumer and will enable us to regain our export markets. It will also not be particularly expensive contrasted with the direct and indirect costs of crop restriction...
...must be passed. There is little or no Washington agreement on the terms of such long-range legislation. The temper of returning Congressmen was last week decidedly in favor of fixing by law what the U. S. should do in case of a war abroad, namely to forbid export of arms and materials to all warring nations alike. The State Department felt acutely that executive discretion will be necessary lest the U. S. by indiscriminate embargoes put weaker nations at such a disadvantage that international bullies should be encouraged to attack them. Fear of Congress that flexible neutrality would give...
That afternoon when the Press announced that the U. S. had changed its oil export policy Secretary Ickes again found himself in an embarrassment. Hastily he rushed out an explanation of his explanation: "I now observe that [my] effort to clarify a previous misunderstanding has been itself misinterpreted in some quarters. ... I have no intimation ... of any change in the Government's policy...
...once his No. 1 endorser. Today nearly every important cinemactress, except Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and Miriam Hopkins, is on the Factor list. With 70 distribution plants throughout the world, Factor claims he is the leading cosmetics manufacturer in the U. S., says he has cut into the French export trade, asserts that on the basis of the last Department of Commerce survey he led the world on six items. In business with Max Factor are Sons David (London office), Frank (chemical laboratory), Louis (plant superintendent), Sidney (Southern California chemistry student); Sons-in-law Bernard A. Shore (makeup adviser...