Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this highly complicated and intricately organized and rapidly shifting economic world, the time has come when a more scientific and businesslike method of tariff revision must be devised. Toward this the new flexible provision takes a long step. ... If, however, by any chance the flexible provisions should prove insufficient for effective action, I shall ask [Congress] for further authority for the [tariff] com-mission...
...Observers were puzzled by the President's emphasis on "the new flexible provision ... a long step." The new flexible provision is less flexible than the old. Previously the President could, upon being advised by the tariff commission that a rate needed altering, make any change he saw fit up to 50% of the standing rate. Now he can alter rates only to the degree the commission recommends...
Cheerfully and even joyously, then, Dowager Queen Marie returned from the Passion Play at Oberammergau last week to Bucharest. As her train drew in, but before it stopped, Her Majesty leaped from the step of her salon car as lightly as a girl, rushed at King Carol who tried to take and kiss her hand, swept him into her arms, hugged and kissed him thrice. With a gay skip Crown Prince (previously King) Mihai rushed at "Granny''! Prince Nicholas kissed his mother's hand. So did all the other great dignitaries present except one. He, an imposingly robed and snowy...
While the majority of U. S. bankers and economists hailed the loan as a constructive step toward Liquidation of the War, opinion was not unanimous. Among the loan's detractors were...
...Carl Bergmann, German economist: "It is not the result of economic experience. ... It is a political venture. . . . It is only one step further...