Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mournfully replied Minister of Agriculture William Shepherd Morrison, a protege of Earl Baldwin: "The Ottawa Empire agreements do not permit such a course. The situation may greatly improve if there is rain in the next two weeks." All churches in the diocese of Bristol were ordered to offer prayers for rain. Within 48 hours heavy rains doused almost the whole of the British Isles, the drought was called "definitely broken...
...down of tariff walls. When the retaliatory tariffs were instituted in 1932, Irish farmers lost their English markets, Anglo-Irish trade tumbled from $400,000,000 a year to only $210,000,000 in 1937. Last week's treaty practically brings Eire into the British Empire's Ottawa tariff group, provides that all Irish goods enter Britain duty-free while only certain British goods have the same privilege in Eire. The only ones who had no reason to acclaim this re-establishment of virtual free trade with Britain were the owners of scores of new factories which shot...
...been the customary procedure in big-league hockey, but Lester Patrick four years ago brought an innovation to the sport when he started a training school for likely prospects. Because Eastern Canada has been so thoroughly scoured by scouts (75% of major-league players come from either Toronto or Ottawa), Manager Patrick opened his school in Winnipeg, where he could have the field to himself...
...Obstacles in the path of an effective trade agreement between the United States and Britain are the Ottawa agreements of 1932 which (1 bound England not to raise the tariffs, 2 established preferential tariffs between Britain and her Dominions, 3 bound Britain not to buy anything from the U. S. she could get from Canada, 4 restored free trade to Britain and her Dominions, 5 bound Britain not to enter into any international agreement without the consent of her Dominions...
Vacant diplomatic chairs are now: Moscow, Ottawa and Assistant Secretary of State...