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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under which Cordell Hull has patiently woven a network of reciprocal trade treaties with 16 foreign countries, is that tariff concessions granted to any signatory country are automatically extended to 70-odd non-signatory countries with which the U. S. has "most-favored-nation" agreements. From the standpoint of Free Trader Hull, this is the strongest point of his policy since generalizing concessions tends to increase the volume of world trade. But it has given many a Hull critic an opportunity to argue that with U. S. tariff favors so lightly won the non-signatory nations of the world will...
...Peace Mandell announced that he had married only 41 couples in Berwyn in six months, saw no obstacle to making use of his administrative (but not judicial) authority elsewhere in the county. A look in the statute books corroborated his belief. When Chicago newspapers gleefully gave him free advertising by describing how a $10 bill would buy a $3 license, a $5 medical examination, and a $2 Mandell ceremony complete with phonograph music and a flowery certificate, authorities sharply cautioned Mr. Mandell against making any such combination offer, drew from Lawyer Mandell an indignant denial that he had done...
...happier lot in jail than most political prisoners. His clothes and laundry are sent in from his home, his food from restaurants. He is allowed a glass of beer daily and a full bottle of burgundy on Sundays, permitted to receive the London Times, and TIME, a privilege few free Germans enjoy. His wife, whose passport was at first seized, later restored, may visit him for 20 minutes each Wednesday, other prisoners' wives having the same privilege...
When King Cymbeline's long-lost sons are discovered, the elder,* Cadwal, is hailed as heir to England's throne. Says he: No, no! This kingly business has no charm for me. . . . Compelled to worship priest-invented gods, Not free to wed the woman of my choice, Being stopped at every turn by some old fool Crying: "You must not," or still worse: "You must...
...lecture is free, open to the public and illustrated. It is the third in the series of Norton Lectures by Dr. Tinker on "Literary Tendencies in English Paintings, 1740-1820." Next week's subject is "Gainsborough. The Return to Nature...