Word: importance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profitable have the luxury duties proved which were imposed a year ago that it is reported the Department of Commerce and Industry will advocate new import duties on watches and phonograph records. The profitableness of such duties indicates the spreading field of Japanese consumption and also of manufactures, for the new duties are planned also as a kind of protective tariff...
...least striking event of the week at Swampscott was a session which the President had with the news correspondents. The import of the meeting was variously garbled, camouflaged or ignored in press dispatches. The plain fact was that Mr. Coolidge raked the correspondents over the coals. He said that their "hot weather reporting" was pretty poor stuff. He suggested that some of them might well give their daily reports a serial title: "Faking with the President." He intimated that it would be better not to send out fake reports oftener than every two weeks- not to report that...
...polyglot gathering, wherein at least a portion of the 232 men of theory were men of action as well. Lionel Curtis, editor of The Round Table (London), led off for the visiting speakers with a concrete proposal for speedy mobilization of the opinions of nations on issues of international import : Let every nation establish its national telephone exchange. At an emergency, let all accredited national institutes be called up by expert publicists from the nation's capital. Let the consensus of these opinions be laid before the world...
...flow of U. S. investment capital abroad during the past year has been unprecedented. It was last week announced that during the first six months of 1925 U. S. imports of foreign securities amounted to $551,591,000. Europe with $237,600,000 proved the principal borrower, while $151,081,000 went to Latin America and $131,910,000 to Canada. Rumors of new foreign loan proposals abound in Wall Street. The only serious obstacle to the continued import of foreign securities so far seen is the objection of the Coolidge Administration to the flotation of loans by countries still...
...living abroad, and depend on TIME for my knowledge of American events. TIME and green celluloid eye shades are the only things I have to import from America...