Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night Scholar Somoza became proficient at accounting. Last week he could authoritatively state that his country needs only about $9,000,000 from the U. S. to build improvements and, to improve her trade with the U. S., an arrangement like the one wangled for Brazil in March by Foreign Minister Aranha. In addition, Dictator Somoza discussed with Franklin Roosevelt, whose guests* he and Señora Somoza were their first night in Washington, his new constitution (now formally blessed by the U. S.), the canal Nicaragua wants the U. S. to pay for across her.t and hemisphere solidarity...
Senator Connally of Texas jumped up to cry: "I think Congress should stay right here in Washington until all the visible dangers of involvement of the United States in foreign war may be removed...
...Harry Hopkins, whose performance was crippled by intestinal flu. In fighting with Congress for larger Relief appropriations than it was willing to give, the President has slowed up other legislation. And though the President's critics are doubtless unjust when they say that he has been plugging foreign policy to cover up domestic failure, certainly his emphasis on the foreign situation has kept Congress' mind off its home work...
...that threatening in coal (see p. 18). For most people, a surprising piece of strike news was that tankers comprise 24% of the U. S. Merchant Marine. Standard Oil of New Jersey with 72 ships (total cost about $70,000,000) operates 17% of U. S. tankers, with its foreign fleets controls 13% of the world's tanker tonnage...
Last week Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop called on Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano at Milan. Foreign correspondents guessed that Italy was balking at helping, even morally, her ally Germany against her old tried-&-true friend Poland, and that the German Foreign Minister's trip (plus trips by German military men) was simply an attempt to again smooth out ruffled relations. Even the Italian press, which unanimously described the enthusiastic crowds which greeted Herr von Ribbentrop at Milan, editorially predicted that the conference would produce "no sensation...