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Generally the grammar is pretty good, but, in the issue of TIME, July 24, under Transport, occurs this sentence: "[Mrs. Clara Adams] . . . broadcasted over a Honolulu-San Francisco radio hook...
...Herr Hitler and Mr. Moscicki he suggested three ways of settling their difficulty: direct negotiation, arbitration by an impartial umpire, conciliation (compromise) through the good offices of a neutral in Europe or the Americas. He reminded Herr Hitler that his last message had gone unanswered, and warned: "The people of the United States are as one in their opposition to policies of military conquest and domination. They are as one in rejecting the thesis that any ruler, or any people, possess the right to achieve their ends . . . through . . . action which will plunge countless millions of people into war . . . bring distress...
Biggest open link in Franklin Roosevelt's chain of Good Neighbors in the Western Hemisphere has been Argentina. For five years Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull have patiently, persistently struggled to overcome: 1) Argentina's historic dominance by Great Britain, 2) Argentine fears of U. S. imperialism, 3) Argentine insistence that the U. S. lift its 1930 ban on imports of pampas beef, 4) Argentina's across-the-table system of bilateral trade, 5) Argentina's able, egotistic Foreign Minister, Saavedra Lamas...
Argentina suddenly changed its trade system to one of import control, freezing foreign exports to Argentina at 1934-36 levels, then setting import quotas. With this Argentina shift toward multilateral trade, Sumner Welles in Washington and Minister Lamas in Buenos Aires could announce with good grace a proposed trade agreement...
...priests were like you, I'd never have left the church," he was assured by Labor's late, famed Mary Harris ("Mother") Jones, at whose grave he preached in 1930. "The best trouble shooter Labor has," Madam Secretary Perkins has said of him. One of his good friends is A. F. of L.'s Baptist president, William Green...