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...House had done much more than okay another lease on life for the Trade Agreements Act, originally passed in 1934 and extended ten times since. Taking a long stride toward freer trade and away from isolationism, the House extended the act for five years instead of the previous maximum of three, granted the President broader trade powers than ever before, including authority to pare tariffs by as much as 10% in a single year (but not more than 25% over the five years). "This is an historic action," said Arkansas Democrat Wilbur D. Mills, the Democratic strategist who guided...
Early this year, with the U.S. worried about unemployment at home, the outlook for freer trade seemed bleak. Only three weeks before the House voted, it looked as if the Administration bill was still in serious trouble. What routed the protectionists against apparent odds was a shrewd, hard-hitting campaign waged by an alliance between the Administration and House leaders of both parties. The major influences...
...that will provide markets such as Puerto Rico has in the U.S. ¶ Official coolness to dictators, who are often corrupt and ultranationalistic. ¶ Greater tolerance for mixed economies in the Puerto Rican style, less insistence on making private enterprise a condition in granting loans. ¶ Any move toward freer trade...
...have got to live and build, while we have the time, a fuller and freer world for ourselves. We have got to see that not only our military alliances but our political thought and economic policies match up to the level of the great scientific and technical advances which the world has made. Whether it be in a great Commonwealth like ours or a great continent like yours, we can no longer afford to think parochially...
...states. "I loved my years out of college, they were far more important to me than college would have been. I knew what I wanted when I came back. I have the impression that many more people left college in my generation than they do now. We felt freer from economic and graduate school pressure in the 'Twenties...