Word: freer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years President Roosevelt has battled for democracy and freedom. . . . Roosevelt believed in government by the people and for the people. . . . Roosevelt believed in putting the common man first . . . Roosevelt believed in the good-neighbor policy, among individuals and among nations. . . . Roosevelt believed in peace through preparedness. . . . Roosevelt believed in freer world trade and a higher standard of living. . . . Roosevelt was its [democracy's] eager servant and faithful defender. . . . Only Roosevelt had the unusual combination of many months spent as a boy in European countries, a comprehensive knowledge of history, experience as Assistant Secretary of the Navy . . . access...
Good or bad, the figures could not pierce the pall at the Palace. They were ancient history; the delegates were worried about Tomorrow. Long had the Council plumped for more and freer trade, steadily endorsed the reciprocal trade agreement program of Cordell Hull. Last week it watched the Secretary of State take one more backward step in his losing battle for commercial freedom: to the long list of U. S. foreign-trade restrictions was added an embargo on aviation gasoline to countries outside the Western Hemisphere. Free traders confronted in San Francisco the question that lurks at every...
There is also offered a supplementary means of payment. Its ideological basis: Germany's belief in the Hull idea of freer trade. To implement it, the U. S. has only to reduce her prohibitive tariffs, let German manufacturers in as payment for the many U. S. crops and products Germany wants...