Word: ment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through Commercial Attache Maurice Garreau-Dombasle. the French Govern- ment announced that if the wine quota were doubled to 1,568,000 gal., France was prepared to quadruple its U. S. apple & pear imports to 900.000 bu. That seemed fair enough until it was learned that the thrifty French were quietly planning to up the tariff on U. S. fruits. This joker discovered, M. Garreau-Dombasle was required to present assurances from his Government that the fruit tariff would not be raised. He did, and the ratio of the international trade stood roughly thus: Frenchmen would eat two pecks...
...proletariat to be prepared to resist "lest British Fascism come like a thief in the night!" Nationally ready for class war, Labor's Cripps is internationally a pacifist. He induced the last Labor Congress to adopt a motion pledging the Party to refuse to support any British Govern-ment which might make war and to stop hostilities if necessary by organizing a general strike (TIME, Oct. 16). In all recent British by-elections Labor candidates have drawn their loudest cheers by restating variations of this anti-war pledge and Sir Stafford loomed last week as easily the Party...
...this project is to move families from city slums to small tracts of land where they can live cheaply and comfortably, raise chickens and vegetables. The first locality selected was Morgantown, W. Va., the second Dayton. Dayton had already evolved a similar scheme to relieve its pressing unemploy ment problem, had set up social agencies to teach destitute families to bake bread, can fruit, repair shoes, make furniture...
...Blue Eagle's tail. In an open letter to President Howard Davis of American Newspaper Publishers Association he described the NRA as "a handicap and not a help to recovery." He did not specify his objections but said: "The NRA is simply a program of social better ment, nothing else; and industry can accept and endure this program on a large scale only after it has recovered, not before. ... As a matter of fact, it is universally impracticable, and if persisted in will become universally detrimental. . . . It would seem to me ... in view of the fact that...
...endeavoring to regulate gold prices is not for a few weeks but for a relatively long period certainly until well after Congress ha reconvened, and perhaps the President will wish even then not to interrupt who will have begun to be an exchange stabilization fund for the American govern ment analogous to that established by Great Britain...