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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After saying the world faces "major disaster" if the rearmament race is not halted, and making what some Navy Leaguers thought was an oblique reference to efforts to get an Anglo-German aerial limitation pact following up the Anglo-German Naval Limitation Pacts of 1935 and 1937, Ambassador Kennedy declared that "the American people look forward to the day when the nations of the world will realize they must agree upon limitation and reduction of armaments...
...event of a European war, said Mr. de Valera to a representative of the London Evening Standard, "no Irish leader will ever be able to get the Irish people to cooperate with Britain while partition [of Ulster from Eire] remains, I would not attempt it myself. The present partition of Ireland is a dangerous anachronism which must be ended...
...some years the correct attitude among newspaper reviewers has been that the more artists, especially young and "promising" artists, get their stuff shown in Manhattan, the more indubitably the Renaissance is at hand. A few weeks ago. however, the New York Times's Howard Devree let himself go and wrote a couple of thousand words to the effect that if he and his colleagues were to be anything but leg men there must be a reduction in the prodigious number of seasonal exhibitions...
About one third of policyholders now have loans of $3,399,000,000 against their policies, generally pay annual interest at 6% amounting to some $200,000,000. This interest will continue in force, but on all new loans after January 1 the companies will get only 5%-a drop in income for which the companies can compensate in only three ways: 1) finding improved investment opportunities elsewhere; 2) raising premiums; 3) cutting dividends. All forms of investment, however, are producing a smaller return these days as a result of the cramped U. S. capital market and the New Deal...
...example Mutual Life of New York announced that on new policies its guaranteed interest rate to beneficiaries would be reduced from 3% to 2½%, that dividends accumulating at interest will get 2½% instead of 3%, that premiums on endowment annuity policies will increase. Last week Northwestern Mutual warned: "All life insurance companies are making important changes in their contracts. . . . These changes may mean an increase in price ... of insurance...