Word: important
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent country-wide campaign unleashed under the instigation of New England textile interests, once again brings into prominence the question of our Japanese import trade. Although the cry of Japanese menace has been flagrantly appealed to, Washington experts have been quick to expose the case as a private scrap between the industry and NRA authorities. The New Englanders maintain that high costs due to the NRA and the processing tax on raw cotton have necessitated higher prices, permitting the Japanese manufacturers to undersell us on our own domestic marekt. Under these circumstances they claim Japanese competition to be endangering...
...female figure."* The stiffest test in all grand opera is the Brünnhilde of Götterdämmerung. That rôle made big news in Manhattan last week when it was sung for the first time by Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, the Metropolitan's new Norwegian import (TIME...
...doctrines must be met by convincing arguments and its charges disproved or adequately explained. Driving the organization underground is evasion of the issue. The Communist Party is attracting members because its arguments and charges are forcefully and clearly set forth so that the common man can understand their import. He many not understand the intricacies of "dialectical materialism" or "surplus value," but he does know that he cannot find work, though he is willing, that men reap financial gains far greater than their usefulness to society merits, and that the present system of production and distribution is unfair and often...
...body blow but it was in fact just another feeler. As Eagle's British President John Alexander Assheton promptly pointed out, all Eagle's oil comes not from conceded State lands but from land privately owned. However, according to the original concession, Eagle had the right to import supplies duty free. President Assheton was prepared last week to fight off any attempt to collect back duties on those imports. Nonetheless, the decree frightened every foreign businessman in Mexico, for, if the Government can cancel Eagle's ironclad concession, what contracts can it not cancel...
Experience in our own dining halls has given us some grasp of the delicate hazards that are implicit in feeding hungry mouths. However, not until reading of the difficulties in the national capital, was the full import of the situation brought home...