Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concrete terms this was said to mean that the participating states would enforce a reduction of their wheat acreage by at least 15% for the next two years. They sought last week to obtain from France. Italy and other European wheat consuming states some lowering of their tariffs and embargoes against wheat. Informally Italian representatives at the Conference said that Premier Mussolini had given them "every assurance of full co-operation with the great wheat producing states." The French delegation raised the issue of wine. With repeal of the 18th Amendment in sight, the U. S.. they declared, could...
...savings banks the rest. Banks which own stock in the trust company may, should the need arise, discount their bonds at S. B. T. just as a commercial member bank discounts its assets at the Federal Reserve. And S. B. T. itself can obtain Federal Reserve credit...
...member of that organization known as the C. C. C. and with my fellow members feel that Major General De Witt is unjustified in classifying us with people who obtain money from the government without working...
...principles of administration. His major thesis: "American industry has got to save itself." His prime warning: "This danger of runaway prices is a deadly serious matter. This is no time to get rich quick." His advice to "open shop" employers: "The Administration is required by the Act to obtain a fair deal for labor in any unorganized industry...
...Aged U. S. Missionary Niels Nielsen, kidnapped in April, was still in bandit hands last week, as were three British ships' officers, kidnapped last March, despite vigorous Japanese efforts to obtain the release of all four...