Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon became apparent that he intended not to desert his party but to criticize its policies from within. Said the Conservative Party's great idealist who may one day make a popular Prime Minister: "It is with the Great Democracies of Europe and America that our natural affinities must lie. We must stand by our conceptions of International Order, without which there can be no lasting peace. ... It is the duty of His Majesty's Government at this time to be vigilant and to be firm. The decision is made. The Government must then go ahead. I most...
...Prime Minister said: "As a result of my conversation today with the Italian Ambassador, I never was more convinced of the right of any decision than that which the Cabinet took Sunday" [drop ping Eden...
Meanwhile, Laborites proposed a motion of censure, which if carried would call for the fall of the Cabinet. The Leader of the Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, shrilled: "Mussolini is a bankrupt dictator, yet it is just at this time that the Prime Minister goes whining to him for an agreement on any terms...
...President Roosevelt declared that a prime New Deal objective was to raise commodity prices to the level of the ''normal'' year 1926. Last spring, when the commodity price level (Bureau of Labor Statistics) was still only 88% of the 1926 norm. President Roosevelt announced that commodity prices in general and steel and copper prices in particular were too high. His remarks precipitated a worldwide slump in commodity prices, which have fallen almost steadily since, were last week back to 80% of the 1926 norm.* Last week Franklin Roosevelt once more delivered himself on commodity prices...
...prime facts about the U. S. hardware business are: Its 1937 gross sales were $750,000,000. More than half of U. S. hardware stores are in towns with less than 5,000 people. Most hardware stores have been in the same family for two or three generations. Unlike groceries and drugstores they have held out resolutely against the chains. There are more than 10,000 hardware manufacturers in the U. S., but retailers buy most of their stock from 400 wholesalers...