Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explanation of the causes and probable effects of the tremendous expansion in American commerce that has taken place during and since the World War cannot but be of interest to those who would keep in touch with the affairs of the world. Especially is this the case when such an authority as Dr. Klein is the author. As Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce he served under Herbert Hoover when the latter was Secretary of Commerce and his former chief has contributed a forword and many quotations to the book. It can be taken as the official...
...main thesis of Dr. Klein's philosophy of trade is that of mutual interest. He shows how the prosperity of any one nation depends on the prosperity of its customers and its competitors, and endeavors to prove that the growth of American trade has not been at the expense of that of other nations. In what is by all odds the most important chapter in the book he claims that it will not be the source of rivalries which might disrupt the peace of the world, because the increase in American exports has been almost entirely in specialties such...
However one feels about this still unsettled problem, the rest of the book cannot prove of interest. The questions of natural monopolies, restrictions of trade, and the new position of America as a creditor nation are all discussed, and a whole section is devoted to review of the economic situation in the leading countries and their probable place in the postwar world of commerce. The author's long experience has enabled him to enliven the text with numerous anecdotes and illustrations that make the book not only informative but interesting reading as well...
...called Hoover Solution awarding Arica and its nitrates to Chile, and the twin mining province of Tacna to Peru, with a six-million-dollar payment by Chile to Peru to boot-all this had been virtually agreed upon by the two countries prior to President Hoover's interest in the problem or Ambassador Moore's arrival on the scene. The ambassadorial smile in the picture was purely ambassadorial. Why he wanted to go to little Peru after lordly Spain remained a mystery and a secret, except to a few well-informed Peruvians not yet ready to give complete...
...magazine golf, is President Hoover about to return those favors by promising to write his autobiography for the Post after his term is ended? The observers recalled, not without amusement, that Editor Lorimer had evened the score with a long, well directed putt. While many were waiting with some interest the appearance of Citizen Coolidge's life history, Editor Lorimer quietly announced that he had signed up Citizen Smith for Post articles. Many were astounded, surprised. Little had magazinemen dreamed that strong Republican, quite dry Saturday Evening Post would publish words written by strong Democratic, very wet Citizen Smith...