Word: importance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cowboy who still carries lead in his shoulder from the 1930 Presidential campaign, completed a profitable month's stay in the U. S. Under the auspices of his friend Cordell Hull he had not only talked business but done business with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, and Export-Import Bank President Pierson. Before cameramen these gentlemen cordially sealed the deal which they had made in a month's negotiations. Its terms...
...handles her high kicks and train of suitors with the same refreshing ability. But when necessities of plot turn her heart towards a rich, Parisian businessman, only stuffy and always noble Herbert Marshall is available to reap the profits. It was a sad mistake for the producers to import Mr. Marshall from the dignity of his Paris apartment to the wild charms of music-hall life; also sad is the change forced on Bert Lahr, who has been transported from his usual garden of foolery to the role of Zaza's faithful partner. Even the erratic foibles of Helen Westley...
...United States, the Export-Import Bank's advance of nearly twenty million dollars of acceptance credit will provide exchange to pay American exporters for unpaid merchandise. Moreover, the large amount of government aid will tend to encourage new American capital investments in Brazil. The pact marks an important step in the development of free trade relations between North and South American countries...
...Another group of Senators went even beyond the Administration's defense plans by presenting a bill to buy, beginning now, $100,000,000 worth of 37 strategic materials (antimony, chromium, manganese, nickel, tin, tungsten, quinine and the like) which the U. S. would need in war but must import...
Another sub-Cabinet resignation of last week: socialite Wayne Chatfield Taylor as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice president of the Export-Import Bank. One reason: discomfort over the Administration's foreign-fiscal policy (loan to China, airplane procurement for France-see col. 2). Another reason: difficulty in getting along with Mr. Henry Morgenthau...