Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal...
Republic claimed that during the 1937 Little Steel strike its plants in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland and elsewhere had lost $2,500,000 because C. I. O. pickets ("armed mobs") had menaced employes, caused suspension of mails, obstructed railroads and highways from its plants, restrained interstate and foreign trade. Under the Clayton Act, triple indemnity plus costs is payable. It was no coincidence that Republic's suit followed by one week C. I. O.'s plea to the Labor Board for $7,500,000 in back pay for time lost by employes after their reinstatement...
...this seemed pretty alarming to foreign correspondents in Italy, who began describing the "rising international tension." But the dictators' press has shouted "Boo!" so many times in the last few years that no longer did such grimacing register in Paris, certainly not in London. There, instead of pondering over the combined Italian-German military might, crowds stood before bookstore windows and gazed at maps of Soviet Russia, commenting approvingly on the size of the great brown expanse. Brokers were calling the advance in stock prices the Stalin Boom. Movie audiences were applauding newsreels of the Red army...
...Geneva, had virtually said "Yes" to the Soviet terms for a big, ironclad Stop Hitler alliance between Britain, France and Soviet Russia. Soon afterwards in Moscow, able, lively British Ambassador Sir William Seeds went to the Kremlin to present his Government's views to Premier Viacheslav Molotov, also Foreign Commissar since the retirement last month of the veteran Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
...William and Comrade Molotov conferred for an hour, at the end of which the Foreign Commissar said he would transmit the British note to his Government, i.e., Joseph Stalin. In Nazi circles, meanwhile, hints were circulated of an impending German, not British, understanding with the Soviets, and there were inspired ghoulish stories that the Communists had proposed to the Nazis a partition of Poland. But while Comrade Stalin maintained an enigmatic silence the British were taking it for granted that the British-French-Russian alliance was in the bag. They even announced that Kliment Voroshilov, top-ranking Soviet General, friend...