Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wave of revolutionary imperialism in the very region of Europe where the pressure of surplus population is the greatest and the post-war impoverishment the most acute. It is no accident, surely, that with the non-European world closed to European migration and in large part to European trade, there should have followed so quickly a fierce movement toward empire and a ruthless spoliation of the more defenseless minorities...
First-rate Orator Dr. Robert Ley, führer of the Labor front of 20 million German workers (who have to take him as their trade union boss whether they like him or not), declared last week: "The resurgence of the German people had three stages: first, unification under a Führer; second, the bursting of the Versailles bonds; third, exposure of the Jewish enemy and the battle with...
...Blum is No. 1 politically in the French Left. No. 1 in a trade-unionist sense is M. Léon Jouhaux, General Secretary of the French General Confederation of Labor, with 5,000,000 enrolled trade unionists-many not French-whom he has to try to keep behind him. This William Green or John L. Lewis of France (and neither cap quite fits Jouhaux) is nearer to "Moscow" than is M. Blum. Earthy, cigar-chewing, big-eating Léon Jouhaux is out for what he can get, whereas intellectual, nervous, lean Léon Blum is akin...
...Joseph Stalin has now decided to make trouble for the democratic governments of Western Europe by promoting general strikes and "World Revolution'' (TIME, Nov. 21), and if there is anything in it for European trade union bosses not themselves Communists, Léon Jouhaux is going to get what...
...other consideration." Suiting the action to the word, she last week journeyed to Paris, put up at the Hotel Meurice (where the Duke & Duchess of Windsor were also resident) in order to be on hand for the state visit of Carol before he went on to Berlin to discuss trade relations with Field Marshal Goring...