Word: fors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Greeted informally coffee-colored, short Stenio Vincent, President of Haiti, in Washington to get credits for works projects. French-speaking President Vincent, now serving a second five-year term,* was referred to Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, who gave a stag dinner in his honor at Welles's...
> Authorized Federal Loan Administrator Jesse H. Jones to open a $10,000,000 credit for Finland through the Export-Import Bank and RFC. With this first material U. S. aid, the Finns may buy "agricultural surpluses and other civilian supplies."
> Approved a note sent by Secretary Hull to London, asking the British Government not to apply to U. S. ships and goods the British blockade program. The document, purely a matter of form, will halt no British seizures, but aids establishment of a base for later damage-delay claims.
*For a corroborating view, see p. 53. *Janizariat version of this stops before the word "but." *Mr. Vincent may run for a third term, but it will be over the dead body of Colonel Demosthenes Petrus Calixte, former commandant of the Garde d'Haiti, now exiled to New York...
But last week, as Mr. Hull dickered desperately with Argentina for his 23rd trade agreement, the 23rd tide of complaints rolled in. Cattlemen, dairymen, manufacturers squawked louder than ever before. Not only had Republicans whipped up anti-agreement sentiment throughout the Midwest, but New Dealers from agricultural States had pledged...