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...Seventeen years ago American trade policy consisted of high tariff walls unilaterally built by protection-minded congressmen. Secretary of State Hull's Reciprocal Trade Agreements lowered those walls somewhat, and since then substantial cuts have been made. The latest effort along this line was U.S. sponsorship of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, a web of multilateral agreements set up in 1948 by which the signatories, including all ECA nations, guaranteed to lower restrictions as far as they could...
...Moonlight Bay (Warner) is a folksy period musical somewhat casually adapted from the Penrod stories of Booth Tarkington, whose Seventeen is currently a Broadway musicomedy. Set in an innocent, brightly colored Indiana during World War I, the picture is strictly summer-weight material-thin, porous and not at all wrinkleproof, but comfortably loose and light...
...week for Communists and Communist angels alike. Seventeen second-rung Communists, who were arrested last month on charges of conspiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the Government, also appeared before Judge Ryan for arraignment. They were released on bail-$171,000 of it supplied by Field's outfit, $5,000 from Field's own pocket. Another four had eluded arrest and disappeared. It was a good guess they were in touch with Comrade Gus Hall and friends, somewhere...
Advance party of a large group which will be recruited throughout Europe next winter, seventeen specially selected foreign students are engaged in a new seminar and study program in the summer school designed to reach the "young and politically active" overseas...
...seventeen students participating represent Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Sweden, and the Netherlands. In the future they will be selected by the Institute of International Education, foreign student associations, advisers in major European Universities, and the U. S. High Commission of Germany...