Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope that it will be of interest to you, I relay to you a report from my roommate. We are both endeavoring to enter the Foreign Service of the U. S. and when we noted in the newspaper that a bellboy here in Washington had passed the written examinations without preparation of the formal variety, a delegation of one, my roommate, went snooping for whys...
...seems that he had been pointing for the examination for some years and with TIME and the Foreign Affairs, had hurdled the general or comprehensive examinations with an easy jump. I am now boning TIME, the textbook of the trend...
...Foreign Loans...
...translation from Reconstruction Finance Corp. was scarcely unexpected, but quick reference to the President's great new scheme made observers wonder if Mr. Jones had not been kicked upstairs instead of promoted. Only part of the proposed plan which the Loan Agency would supervise was the foreign business. Mr. Jones, professional banker, has been regarded by the New Deal as none too openhanded, no persistent pump-primer.* Secretary Henry Wallace, on the contrary, and John Carmody have ably learned the art of putting out Federal money, and the major portion of this new money would be theirs...
Senator Pittman's blackjack was potent. The harassed Senate compromised by voting back the 1937 silver price for domestic silver, barring further purchases of foreign silver (from China and Mexico). More surprising, it gave Senator Glass his victory, voted 47-to-31 to end the President's power to pare the dollar. But it gave new life to the stabilization fund, essential for U. S. participation in steadying foreign exchange with England and France...