Word: foreignism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anthony Eden, after staying with his sister on the French Riviera since his resignation as Foreign Secretary, quietly returned to London, last week made a little speech. "I am a convinced believer in democracy, yet it would be foolish, perhaps fatal, to the very survival of democracy to ignore the stupendous achievements realized under other forms of government!" cried Orator Eden, addressing the annual dinner of the Royal Society of St. George...
...loans bolster Albanian Government finances, the army is Italian-officered and Italy is Albania's best customer. Thus the wedding had to have the official Mussolini O.K., and Il Duce showed that he strongly approved this latest Italian-Hungarian-Albanian tie-up by having his son-in-law. Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, interrupt his Franco-Italian talks in Rome to bustle across to Tirana to act as Zog's witness...
...officially listed a Progressive, member of the House Committee on Interstate & Foreign Commerce, he is the father of a resolution to investigate the automotive industry. This was inspired in March 1937 by the predominantly Progressive Wisconsin Legislature, as a result of a State licensing law for automobile dealers which brought out the fact that certain features of the dealer business were interstate in character and therefore outside State regulation. Gardner Withrow's proposal was that the Federal Trade Commission investigate monopolistic features of the relations between automobile manufacturers and dealers. Congress passed the resolution last month and Franklin Roosevelt...
...released last week by the Department of Commerce, again recorded a favorable balance. What was more, the balance was a sizable $320,662,000. Reasons for this were simple: 1) Though still a half less than in the first quarter of the 1929 boom, the volume of U. S. foreign trade has nearly doubled since 1932; 2) more or less stable business conditions abroad plus vast rearming programs have kept foreign buying of U. S. goods steady while U. S. buying of foreign goods has slumped with U. S. depression...
Depression. While sales of automobiles in the U. S. slumped notably, foreign demand remained firm; automotive exports in March last year totaled $28,819,000, this year $28,971,000. What the U. S. buys most from abroad is raw materials, but U. S. commodity prices are now at a two-year low; hence imports of non-ferrous metals were down from $19,547,000 in March 1937 to $9,641,000 this year, tin from $11,617,000 to $3,808,000, newsprint from...