Word: renew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Missionary Mussolini. Significantly Poland's pro-Nazi Foreign Minister Joseph Beck three weeks ago was in the Rumanian capital to explain that "Rumania is necessary to Poland's security because of Russia's nearness." Foreign Minister Beck, in earnest conversations with King Carol, sought to renew and put teeth into the 1921 Polish-Rumanian Treaty. If he succeeded, the Rome-Berlin axis would be completely buffered on the east except for Czechoslovakia, satellite of "Marxist" France...
...same clear sense characterizes the statement of President Conant, of Harvard, about the failure to renew the three-year appointments of two young economics instructors as has been manifested in his other public statements. It was this which enabled him to cut through the sophistries of the Nazi demands on Harvard and; in the case of governor La Follette's request to him to pass on the Glenn Frank case, to expose the essence of the whole problem in a few sentences. Critics of Harvard contend that the two instructors were "dropped" because they had expressed political and economic views...
...themselves perfectly to blacklisting by shippers, seamen on both coasts protested against carrying them, even tied up ships by refusing to get them (TIME, Jan. 25). Month ago a Federal judge in Manhattan granted a preliminary injunction against the enforced use of discharge books. Last week he refused to renew the injunction. The disappointed seamen had small consolation in the Bland Bill, passed by the House last week as a compromise measure, giving sailors a choice of "fink books" or scarcely less revelatory "certificates of identification." Provided, however, was a fine of $1,000 or a year in jail...
...this is on questions of social and political liberalism, the U. S. Senate proved last week that there is still one class of issues on which party lines hold as well as ever: questions of economic liberalism. Before the Senate was a bill, already passed by the House, to renew for another three years the President's power (due to expire in June) to make reciprocal trade agreements...
...know, one of the major efforts of this Department, which will be vigorously continued should Congress renew the Trade Agreements Act of 1934, is the negotiation of agreements with other nations whereby the barriers to trade are lessened and a greater movement of trade facilitated. I am certain that this program will bring mutual economic advantage to this country and to other countries, and that the resulting economic stimulus and improvement in the world will lessen the burdens placed upon governments. Further, the improved opportunity and the increased hope which the enlarged international trade will bring should favor the maintenance...