Word: postes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people did not like to see the government exercise too much power over their business affairs. For eight years he held his post; then he was dismissed from office and died in disgrace...
...Paul Y. Anderson,* to stop writing for The Nation four years ago, that hardhitting reporter took the order in good part, ridiculed the suggestion "that interests which I have treated none too tenderly" had finally caught up with his boss: "Don't believe a word of it. The Post-Dispatch cannot be 'reached'-I have seen that tried often enough to know." In a gregarious profession, Bovard's aloofness has become a legend. To keep his objectivity on ice, he lived completely withdrawn from the social and community life of St. Louis, in which...
Assistance for U. S. exports was made necessary by three great post-War changes -the building of huge tariff walls, the U. S. shift from a debtor to a creditor nation and the establishment by competing nations of export credit agencies. With almost every foreign nation in debt to the U. S., none had money to buy U. S. products; and the U. S. banking system, developed for a debtor nation, had no machinery for providing foreign buyers with long-term credits. The first Export-Import Bank was created by Franklin Roosevelt in 1934 to fill the need for Russia...
During the dull days of post-War recovery, Cristobal goes to work on four English bankers who stole his father's copper mine, ruins them separately with deliberately prolonged, sadistic finesse. Tuning up for the last revenge, on capitalism, Cristobal begins by short-selling the world's best shoe and smelting stock in memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, utilities in honor of Tom Mooney, and so on through all the martyrs of radicalism. Meanwhile he has married a poor, tuberculous girl, returned to Spain to finance an uprising. A hero in the first days of the Spanish Civil...
...expatriate writers left in Europe is Kay Boyle, 35, Minnesota-born. Her short stories and novels still suffer from the elliptical writing that flourished in post-War Paris. They are difficult reading not because her prose is obscure, but because her characters are puzzling neurotics and she does not seem to know...