Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intimation to the International Chamber of Commerce that armament costs rather than high tariffs are the particular cause of Depression about which something should be done at once (TIME, May 18). "Among causes contributing to World Depression." cried Free-Trader Henderson, "the magnitude and high level of protective tariffs rank first and foremost...
...Smith Wildman Brookhart Jr., the Iowa Senator's slender, soft-voiced, studious son, aged 25. When the Senator arrived in Washington in 1926, Son Brookhart had been given a clerical job with the Trade Commission. Graduated from George Washington Uni versity in 1929, he was promoted to the rank of a Commission economist and investigator. Married, father of a year-old daughter, he is now studying law. Phase II began with a scrutiny by Son Brookhart of huge North American Co.'s structure and functions. Examiner Brookhart testified that 76 companies, most of which North American controls, servicing...
...would rather hear those words from you, Madame, than from the best qualified member of the National Assembly."* After the train steamed out, the crowd remained for some time, shouting "Vive Briand! Vive la Paix!" But even though news of this demonstration reached Geneva, no friend of cabinet rank was at the station except the Scotsman. "All That Is Best." It was said that M. Briand had come to Geneva only to preside as Chairman at the meeting of the Commission on European Union ("The United States of Europe") of which he is President. When the Commission met next...
...preliminary to the four-year plan. Impressive letters on stationery headed Treasury and Imperial Conference gave Swindler Owen the cachet not only of honor but of friendship with the great. Soon Dr. Owen got Oxford to give him an honorary M. A. He pretended that he already had the rank of Doctor (of Engineering), a rank highly esteemed in Europe.* He went about Oxford arm-in-arm with England's intellectually great and smart. Dr. Owen next persuaded the Ministry of Agriculture that he should visit the U. S., to study advanced methods in agricultural schools. He returned...
...modern review, "The Third Little Show" is an obvious success. The matter of lavish sets and multitudinous choruses is left to the movies. The excellent humor of the individual scenes carries the show and with a small amount of necessary revision and rearrangement the result should approach the first rank...