Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continuation of the Hull reciprocal trade treaties, declared against tariff reductions. Now Crawford, in line with his philosophy of free competition (TIME, March 1), specifically called for the elimination of inflexible tariffs and declared: "There will be another war in 25 to 30 years if nations close up behind rigid trade barriers." His declaration raised hopes in some quarters that N.A.M. would support the extension of the Hull treaties when they come up for renewal this spring...
Eckstein first saw Japan on the day the American Exclusion Act went into effect. He spent his first night with a Japanese family in the home of a surgeon. The surgeon's Western education had not altered the decorum, the grace, the rigid loveliness of his family life, which adorned that evening like a page out of Lafcadio Hearn. It had not altered anything else, either. Late in the evening, after a good deal of pleasant enough talk, and apropos nothing, the surgeon "said quietly that he wished his country would wipe off the insult, declare war on mine...
...Rigid Requirements. In Sacramento, the U.S. Employment Service got a request for six laborers who would fit the six pairs of size nine rubber boots which the prospective employer still...
...Americans do. But she hardly knew her own country. She found a Chinese teacher and learned to speak, read & write Chinese. Gradually she took on Chinese dress. As a beautiful member of the distinguished Soong family, she cavorted to feasts, rode in jodhpurs. But as a girl with a rigid conscience, she joined the Y.W.C.A. and the Child Labor Commission. She had a horror of untidiness: an English friend describes how she impatiently snatched a dustcloth from a shiftless amah one day and dusted a whole room, exclaiming against dirt...
...divisions of much-touted Heinz Guderian's Second Tank Army and took the towns of Mikhailov and Yepifan. This year he was promoted from army commander to commander of the Voronezh front. What he has done there, culminating last week in the cracking of the Germans' rigid southern line, suggests that he personally burns for total destruction of the enemy...