Word: statecraft
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...disgrace to European statecraft was the final adjournment in Geneva last week of the three-year-old League of Nations conference to promote a general European tariff truce (TIME, Sept...
Political ineptitude in Herbert Hoover was one thing the country had been loudly warned about?but in the summer of Prosperity neither leaders nor masses gave a fig for statecraft. The tariff fight first made this deficiency glaringly plain. The President had called for "limited revision" but had miscalculated the greedy demands upon his own party from industrialists for top-notch rates. Their pressure soon put Congress clean...
...successor General Berenguer), blue-jawed Alfonso always wore the uniform of a field marshal. Smart King. Soon all around King Alfonso rose, denser than usual, the heady perfume of praise. All his courtiers told His Majesty that he had just played superlatively well a most difficult hand at statecraft, finessing the Republican parties, easing out that old rebel Jose Sanchez Guerra whom he had "cleverly" called as Prime Minister (TIME, Feb. 23), consolidating the Monarchist parties, and finally setting up under Admiral Aznar the most thoroughly aristocratic Cabinet which even Spain has had in years...
William Cameron Forbes, bald, aristocratic Bostonian, has held two outstanding positions in Statecraft. He was Governor General of the Philippines, chief U. S. executive in the vast Pacific, under President Taft. He is now Ambassador to Japan, only U. S. Ambassador in all Asia...
...goods in Canada increasing prices in consequence of the imposition of any duties under the provisions of this act, the Governor in council may reduce or remove such duty." As well they might, Bennett cohorts boasted last week that this clause is a great, novel, constructive piece of statecraft. Citizens of the U. S. enjoy no such safeguard against price-jacking and purse-gouging by their own protected industries. 25,000 Jobs. As a "minimum" and "immediate" result of his fixed tariff, Mr. Bennett promised Canadians last week 25.000 new jobs. Explaining how he had arbitrarily determined which producers...