Word: import
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question raised by the series of articles on concentration. the House series, moreover, raises a second question: "How much care is the CRIMSON, by its special position as the sole undergraduate newspaper, obligated to exercise in the preparation of a series of articles dealing with matters of great import to the successful administration of a college of over 3000 undergraduates...
...said, "Italian business holds itself ready to withstand yet further trials." The withstanding machinery consists in part of decrees protecting the worker from either wage cuts or upping of retail prices, except in specific cases by assent of the State. Italian farm prices have thus far been supported by import quota restrictions. Tuberculin tests are invoked to exclude much foreign cattle. The Fascist Press ceaselessly thunders, "Buy Italian!" Speculation on Italian stock exchanges is now checked with such rigor that prices and trading have long been stagnant...
...currency cheapened by reflation. Himself a farmer of broad acres, Mr. Forbes admitted that producers in other Dominions may find themselves undercut by New Zealand's cheap money. To appease the expected wrath of such brothers-in-Empire, Farmer Forbes hinted at lowering New Zealand's import levies on Empire products...
...reading this estimate of Hemingway's personal import, there arise the old questions as to just how multi importance is to be attached a literary work as indication of the mental processes of a class. But even admitting the significance of the author of "A Farewell to Arms" in this respect, there is a further doubt. If the members of the present college generation confess themselves truly pictured by Hemingway, and, as Fadiman says, "as vitally maimed as the hero of The Sun Also Rise," they confess themselves beaten, not by the war, with which they had no direct contact...
Last week Attorney General Mitchell ruled that the Treasury must reimpose the tax on British and German coal, regardless of treaty rights, and let importers fight out their claims in court. Reasoned "General" Mitchell: "Relief from this import duty on coal was only to be granted where a trade balance favorable to the U. S. existed, and as we have most-favored-nation treaties with most, if not all, of the nations likely to ship coal to the United States, the conclusion reached by the Treasury would practically nullify the efforts of Congress to impose an import tax on coal...